This year's Belarussian selection method consists of 5 semifinals, each of them featuring 5 songs. A jury will evaluate the entries and will pick one of them in each semifinal to proceed to the final. The viewers will have a

The event will be held at the Pallasi i Congreseve, in Tirana and will last for no less than 4 evenings, beginning on Christmas Eve and finishing on the 27th of December 2009.

The 46th Festival da Canção will consist of two Semi-Finals and a Grand Final, all held in Lisbon (Campo Pequeno). In each of the Semi-finals 12 songs will take part and only six of these will qualify to the Grand