 Controversy ensued, as a technical issue with the public televoting portion of the result failed when the voting period ran overtime, leading to the nullification of the televote which Stavec won.This led to a portion of the Slovenian public, anti-gay activists, to take to the streets of the capital Ljubljana, protesting the selection of the song, which they saw as a slight to Slovenia.Furthermore, speeches calling for the group to be disendorsed reached the Slovenian Parliament, and beyond to the European Parliament, leading to some European politicians claiming that Slovenia should not be admitted into the European Union on account of the social attitudes to homosexuality.