Aidan Cassar backs out of Eurovision legal challenge

Former Eurovision contestant Aidan Cassar has backed out of legally challenging the Public Broadcasting Services' decision to disqualify him from the Eurovision Song Contest. 

The singer had demanded that PBS suspend its decision to disqualify him from the Eurovision Song Contest and threatened to take further action should the station not allow him the opportunity to explain himself. He never filed an injunction or filed a case but sent the station a letter through his lawyers.

In response, PBS claimed that there was no cause to delay its decision, claiming that it was final. 

Less than a week later, on Tuesday evening, Cassar turned to Facebook to acknowledge that launching a formal legal complaint would have been selfish on his part because it would have meant stopping the festival from going ahead.

"This was never my intention, especially with regard to my fellow singers, who, like me, worked hard to provide a magnificent performance on that stage, as well as Eurovision fans," Cassar explained. 

The singer revealed that he had dreamed of representing Malta in Eurovision since he was seven years old. 

"I worked so hard, I even quit my full-time job a few weeks ago to give everything to this dream of mine," Cassar said. 

While thanking everyone who helped him along the way, he wished other singers success in the last two weeks of the competition.