Caracas. The popular Miss Venezuela beauty contest has been questioned in recent days, after members of the jury denounced fraud in the last edition, held last Wednesday, when a candidate who did not have the votes of the evaluating panel was chosen as the winner. an argument that the organizers of the contest dismissed this Monday.
The choice of the 25-year-old Diana Silva as the new Miss Venezuela began to be questioned last Thursday morning, when members of the jury began to declare to local media and through social networks that “no one” had supported her, for what they did not understand his coronation.
According to a statement released this Monday on the Miss Venezuela website, the jury knew that the vote included, in addition to their qualifications, the points awarded by a large group of experts, professors and members of the production of the contest, so the organizers They reject fraud claims as “inaccurate and misrepresented.”
The pronouncements of the jury, which did not validate the announced result, were made “without taking into account the selection process that was explained to them in their first meeting, trying to tarnish and tarnish the image” of the contest, the letter continues.
These accusations, the organization adds, have created “an unnecessary and unjustified climate of uncertainty and doubts towards those who were the winning candidates in a fair fight and who deserve all the recognition, support and backing of the public.”
Last Wednesday, Silva from Caracas was crowned the “most beautiful woman in the country” in a contest that tried to recover the glory of previous decades by once again being held in the largest indoor capacity in Venezuela, the Poliedro de Caracas, after nine years .
As it is an unprecedented event, the complaints have monopolized the conversations on social networks, where the representative of La Guaira spoke, who should have won, according to several members of the jury who voted for her.
The young woman asked for an explanation, above all, she said, because of the fanaticism that this pageant arouses in the country, from which seven Miss Universe winners have emerged and which obtained a Guinness record in 2009 for being the only one to retain that title for two consecutive years. crown
