No changes to Miss France just yet
No changes to Miss France competition this year despite territorial reform, competition organiser says
PRESIDENT François Hollande cannot have been thinking about future Miss France competitions when he announced his plans for territorial reform in France earlier this week.
On Tuesday, Mr Hollande unveiled his new 14-region map of France. He had clearly considered its political and administrative impact - but he had probably not thought about the possibility of someone representing Poitou-Charentes-Centre-Limousin winning a future Miss France contest, ahead of Miss Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées.
Others had, however, and quickly took to Twitter to air their concerns. But they have no need to worry, general director of Society Miss France and Miss Europe Organisation Sylvie Tellier told the Huffington Post.
She said: “For six months on Twitter, I have regularly had questions about it."
She added that the 2015 competition, will go ahead as planned in December.
But she conceded that changes may be possible later.
She said: “Novelty can bring very good things. No door is closed.”
But she also said that people should be “careful not to confuse regional identity with administrative divisions”.
Miss France is not perfectly modeled on the administrative map, anyway, since it features 33 candidates each year, 11 more than the current number of regions. And Languedoc-Rouissillon is represented by two contestants.
