The fifth season of the Romanian reality talent show Vocea României premiered on ProTV on September 18, 2015.
Firstly, during the blind auditions, the coaches' chairs only turned around at the end of the performance if at least one of them had pressed the "I WANT YOU" button.
Cristina Bălan, best known as the lead vocalist of the bands Impact and ABCD and mentored by Tudor Chirilă, was declared winner of the season.
The first phase of the competition, the blind auditions, taped July 25–26[3] and August 3–4, 2015,[4][5] at the Kentauros Studios, Ștefăneștii de Jos,[6] began airing when the season premiered on September 18, 2015.
The semi-final aired on Friday, December 11, 2015, and featured four "crossed duels" consisting of pairings of contestants from different teams.
With the elimination of Antonio Fabrizi and Mihai Dragomir Rait, Loredana no longer had any artist remaining on her team.
Multiple contestants eliminated in the pre-selection phase accused Loredana Groza of bias toward the students at her private singing school.
[31] Contestant Liviu Bazu, who had sung in well-known Romanian bands, such as FFN, Cromatic and Basorelief, and who had appeared in the first episode of the season, claimed that the coaches had been "influenced and manipulated" by Czech producer Peter Majeský, so that they would not press their buttons during his audition.
The involvement of the Satu Mare County Council spawned negative reactions among some viewers who complained about the abundance of posters advising readers to vote for the artist.
ProTV requested the removal of the posters, on the ground that they included the logo of the show and pictures of Tudor Chirilă without consent.
The president of the council, Adrian Ștef, stated that he found the intention of supporting the contestant natural.
He also denied any accusations of bias, mentioning that the Satu Mare County Council had made a similar campaign in 2013, in order to support singer Bogdan Bratiș, who came fourth in the third season of the Romanian version of The X Factor.
She also stated that she saw Vocea României as a chance to restart her music career, after a long period of inactivity.