On 3 March 2002 , the '' Selecția Națională '' was held in order to select the Romanian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 . Subsequently , " Tell Me Why " was chosen to represent Romania in the contest after the votes of a professional jury panel and public televoting were combined , resulting in 19 points . Sietse Bakker from EscToday praised the artists as having the best voices in the show . In a 2010 interview with '' Adevărul '' , Anghel said : " It was both my idea and Marcel Pavel 's to record a song together for Eurovision and it seemed an extraordinary idea because the Romanian audience loves us . ... Basically , we have won the national selection thanks to the audience . They expressed their wish that we should participate . " Both Pavel and Anghel took part in the national selection in previous years . Selected as the Romanian entrant for Eurovision in 1996 with her song " Rugă pentru pacea lumii " , the latter failed to qualify for the Grand Final that year
Eurovision Song Contest 2002
Eurovision Song Contest 2002
Tell Me Why (Monica Anghel and Marcel Pavel song)