The San Marino broadcaster may have dropped a pair of hints about the nature of Una Voce per San Marino national selection to select the Eurovision entry for 2022, although the initial reporting of the event didn't notice this, perhaps because it is in Italian and because the rest of the presentation of the broadcaster's
2021 calendar may not have seemed relevant in Eurovision terms.
In case something is lost in translation that people who know Italian can clarify, I have included the original Italian.
The first hint relates to timing. As a calendar of events, they are announced in chronological order by month explicitly stated.
Una Voce per San Marino is placed after the Gran Gala dei Festival (14-16 October) and before the Natale Delle Maraviglie, which is a Christmas event in December.
There is also this statement:
La programmazione prenderà il via nel mese di giugno, durerà per tutto l’anno e prevede almeno un grande evento in ogni mese.
The Google Translate English version: "The programming will start in June, will last throughout the year and include at least one major event in each month."
The only month without a major event during the rest of 2021 is November, right where the undated Una Voce per San Marino event is placed on the chronological calendar. This would seem to indicate that the Una Voce di San Marino is currently planned to begin in November 2021.
The second hint is the length:
La novità 2021, che proseguirà per tutto il 2022 sarà il Festival “Una voce per San Marino”, competizione canora per selezionare il rappresentante della Repubblica di San Marino all’Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
Google Translate English version: The novelty for 2021, which will continue throughout 2022 will be the "Una voce per San Marino" Festival, a singing competition to select the representative of the Republic of San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
There seems to be something lost in translation here as Eurovision does not take place at the end of the year, but unless there is a major typo this seems to indicate the competition will begin in 2021 and will end at some point in 2022. Earlier it is stated that these announcements cover a period of time "starting from the next summer months until the early days of 2022," or in the original Italian, "
a partire dai prossimi mesi estivi fino ai primi giorni del 2022".
Una Voce per San Marino is the only event where a 2022 timeframe is mentioned, so this suggests the end date is early 2022.
Israel has selected their Eurovision entrant with a singing contest which has lasted a similar or even longer timeframe.
None of this reading between the lines is anything but speculation at this point, but speculation helps fill the time until Eurovision begins again, doesn't it?