Eurovision Song Contest 1988
Country	Yugoslavia
National selection
Selection process	Jugovizija 1988
Selection date(s)	12 March 1988
Selected entrant	Srebrna krila
Selected song	"Mangup"
Selected songwriter(s)	Rajko Dujmić Stevo Cvikić
Finals performance
Final result	6th, 87 points
Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄1987 • 1988 • 1989►

Yugoslavia was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, held in Dublin, Ireland.

The Yugoslav national final was held on 12 March 1988 at the Cankarjev dom^[1] in Ljubljana, hosted by Miša Molk and Bogdan Barovič. There were originally meant to be 16 songs competing, but "Noć u suzama" performed by Jasna Gospić had to be withdrawn as the singer was ill in hospital. The winning song was chosen by the votes of 8 regional juries.

The new voting system introduced in 1987 allowed the juries from each TV studio to be able to vote for their own entries. Most of them used this opportunity, as well as in the following years. Every jury member (3 from every TV studio - 24 in total) could vote only for 5 songs.^[2]

Final – 12 March 1988

Draw	TV station	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	TVLj	Moni, Simona and Urša	"Lahko je reči ljubim te"	7	13
2	TVSk	Maja Odžaklievska and Gu-Gu	"Te ljubam ludo"	42	5
3	TVSa	Zerina Cokoja and Narcis Vučina	"Voljeću te"	21	8
4	TVPr	Edmond Islami	"Kaltrina"	10	11
5	TVSa	Arnela Konaković	"Slatki snovi"	12	10
6	TVTg	Mito Zoranić	"To mora da je ljubav"	4	14
7	TVLj	Meta Močnik	"Še in še"	10	11
8	TVNS	Sunčeve pege	"Zaboravi sve"	39	6
9	TVZg	Oliver Dragojević	"Dženi"	51	2
10	TVBg	Alen Slavica	"Suzan"	4	14
11	TVNS	Meri Cetinić	"Ne sudite mi noćas"	15	9
12	TVBg	Bebi Dol	"Zatvori mama prozore"	49	3
13	TVZg	Srebrna krila	"Mangup"	87	1
14	TVLj	Moulin Rouge	"Johnny je moj"	43	4
15	TVZg	Grupa 777	"Tiha noć"	38	7

On the night of the contest Yugoslavia performed last 21st, following Portugal. At the close of voting it had received 87 points, placing 6th in a field of 21.^[3]

Yugoslavia gave the decisive votes of the contest: it was the last country to vote, and at that point United Kingdom was leading Switzerland by five points at the top of the scoreboard. Yugoslavia began to award its points, and gave 6 points to Switzerland, edging it into a one-point lead over the UK. After earlier strong votes from most countries to the UK, it seemed highly likely that the UK would be given one of the higher remaining set of points. However as Yugoslavia announced its seven, eight, ten and twelve points, it transpired that it had awarded the UK no points at all, as the Yugoslav jury awarded its 12 points to France, and Switzerland was left with its one-point lead to savour a dramatic triumph.

Yugoslavia, as being the last jury to announce its votes, had caused the similar situation to happen when after their voting UK lost to Spain by 1 point in the 1968 Contest.

Points awarded to Yugoslavia[4] Score Country 12 points  Denmark  Iceland  Israel 10 points 8 points  United Kingdom 7 points  Luxembourg  Turkey 6 points  Italy  Sweden 5 points 4 points  Austria  Greece 3 points  France  Ireland 2 points   Switzerland 1 point  Finland

Points awarded by Yugoslavia[4] Score Country 12 points  France 10 points  Norway 8 points  Germany 7 points  Netherlands 6 points   Switzerland 5 points  Italy 4 points  Spain 3 points  Luxembourg 2 points  Ireland 1 point  Israel