In the first round, fifteen competing acts participated in a televised production where public televoting selected the top three entries to qualify to the final.

Performing during the show in position 5, "Mum" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final.

Doroga na Evrovidenie was the national final format developed by BTRC to select the Belarusian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

Prior to the national final, Polina Smolova opted to change her candidate song from "Sait odinochestva" to "Mama".

The first round took place on 10 February 2006 at the Republic Palace in Minsk, hosted by Denis Kurian and was televised on the First Channel as well as Belarus TV online via the broadcaster's official website tvr.by.

The second round took place on 27 February 2006 at the Youth Variety Theater in Minsk where the votes of jury members made up of music professionals selected "Mama" performed by Polina Smolova as the winner.

[10] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country, the "Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) and the ten highest placed finishers in the 2005 contest are required to qualify from the semi-final in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from the semi-final progress to the final.