AINVision Arriola 2020

AINVision Arriola 2020 (2020 Festival D'Ainvisió) will be the seventeenth semi-annual AINVision Song Contest. It is scheduled to take place in February 2020 in Palma de Mallorca, Arriola, following the country's victory at the 2019 contest in Port Lantea, Neu Westfalen, with the song "Sofia" performed by Álvaro Soler.

Preparation
The hosting broadcasters launched the bidding process on 1 May 2019. In the first phase of this process, cities were to formally apply to bid. Six cities—Barcelona, Bilbao, Els Angles, Palma de Mallorca, Toulon and Les Palmas—did so and received a list of criteria they and their venues needed to meet on 15 June 2019. Initially, Cartagena had also considered launching a bid to host the event but the city ultimately decided against doing so because it deemed its venue, the open-air Cartagena Arena, to have unsuitable proportions.

Barcelona ultimately withdrew from the bidding process after a public referendum on hosting the festival failed to secure public support. Palma de Mallorca was selected on 10 September 2019 as the host, prevailing over Bilbao in the final round of voting.

Domestic representatives

 * 1) Arriola – Pablo Alboran
 * 2) Balisca – Pabllo Vittar

Coronavirus
On 10 February, a British national was admitted to Son Espases Hospital in Palma, after testing positive for coronavirus, where he and his family were immediately isolated. The announcement caused considerable panic throughout the island, and generated calls to either delay or cancel AINVision. However, on 14 February, the British national tested negative for the virus for the first time, while showing clear signs of recovery.

Storm Gloria
Two weeks before the first events building up to AINVision began, Arriola was struck by Storm Gloria. Coastal Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia and much of Occitania was thrashed by high winds, waves, and snowfall. Palma de Mallorca and its surrounding area escaped the worst of the storm, only having faced high winds and massive amounts of seafoam being blown ashore. Between January 21 and January 28, the Balearic government made important statements regarding the storm, insteading deferring all statements to the Aranese Council. The Balearic government was criticized by Prime Minister Sampietr through Twitter for seemingly being more concerned with AINVision preparation, than it was with the recovery operations. In the Balearics alone, Storm Gloria was estimated to have caused at least $16.8 million in damages, and knocked out the power for some 11,000 homes.

On 30 January the Balearic government rejected a petition from the Aranese Council to delay AINVision.

Sponsorship policy
While AINVision has typically included sponsorships from both domestic and international corporations, AINVision 2020 organizers in conjunction with the public Aranese Broadcasting Corporation announced on 1 February 2020 that they would not be accepting any sponsorship offers, whether they be domestic or international. This is part of a long-standing policy of the Aranese Broadcasting Corporation to not accept financial partnerships with private entities, as it is funded entirely by the Aranese government.