When the songs of the 59th edition of the Song Festival were presented for the first time, there were 26 participating artists, while in the announcements of the official website of the Albanian Radio Television writes "25 competing artists". In addition, Manjola Nallbani's song, "The Hour of Life", has been deleted from the RTSH YouTube channel.

Contacted by Anabel.al, the singer accepted the withdrawal from the competition and added that the motives were health.

"I withdrew from the Festival, because during the rehearsals and preparations by other competitors, I was with Covid. "In addition, because I'm better now, but the main thing [of withdrawing from the race is] that the Festival will be held outside in the square and I can not risk my health again at a time when I'm recovering and I have to be careful."

The first night of the Festival will be held tonight. For more details, click here .