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"Não sejas mau para mim" - Dora
"Don't be so bad to me, I just want you"
The Portuguese Final was held on March 22nd, hosted by Henrique Mendes & Maria Helena. Each of the four Portuguese Television districts (Ponta Delgada, Funchal, Porto and Lisbon) submitted 3 songs and the songs were broadcast from these regional studios as video clips. The winning song was chosen by the votes of an "expert" jury and only the top 3 songs were announced.
| 1 | No vapor da madrugada | In the vapour of daybreak | Grupo Rimanço | 2nd= |
| 2 | Canção para José da Lata | Song for José da Lata | Carlos Alberto Moniz & A Banda | - |
| 3 | Cais de encontro | Meeting quay | Luís Bettencourt | - |
| 4 | Tango da meia-noite | Midnight tango | Luís Filipe | - |
| 5 | Um amor, uma ilha | One love, one island | Paulo Ferraz | - |
| 6 | Quebrar a distância | Breaking the distance | Sérgio Borges | - |
| 7 | Dessa juras que se fazem | Those oaths we say | Né Ladeiras | - |
| 8 | Tigres de bengala | The cane tigers | Trabalhadores do Comércio | 2nd= |
| 9 | Cinzas e mel | Ashes and honey | Gabriela Schaaf | - |
| 10 | Rápidamente | Rapidly | Lara Li | - |
| 11 | Não sejas mau para mim | Don't be so bad to me | Dora | 1st |
| 12 | Uma balada de amor | A love ballad | Fá | - |
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Dora came 14th at the ESC. Sérgio Borges won the 1970 Portuguese Final but Portuguese Television decided not to take part in the ESC that year. Fá was a member of the group Doce who represented Portugal in the 1982 ESC.