Miss Alès 2025: a first selection ball with 19 candidates in front of the jury

Les 19 candidates ont été accueillies par le jury, l’élue Raphaële Navarro et le président d’Alès Agglo Christophe Rivenq. Midi Libre – Alexis BETHUNE

This Sunday, December 5, the Alès City Hall welcomed the candidates for the 2025 edition of the beauty contest for a first selection to succeed Clara Crouzette.

Early in the afternoon this Sunday, December 5, a certain calm reigns in the lobby of the Alès City Hall. But behind the door of a room adjoining the main entrance, a group of young girls is actively preparing, in a climate carrying a certain impatience mixed, a little, with apprehension.

In front of the City and the committee

Initially, there were 24 of them who registered for this first selection of candidates for Miss Alès 2025, but 5 of them apparently withdrew. “It's coming”, they comment among the municipal team surrounding them.

A few minutes later, 19 young girls aged 17 to 24 cross the hall one after the other to join the bright Salle des États du Languedoc. The faces and identities of the 10 of them who will be selected at the end of the day will be officially revealed on the evening of the competition, on February 8 at the Alès Agglo exhibition center, in the presence of the current Miss France, Angélique Angarni-Filopon. But we are witnessing a group of women with styles and looks as varied as the evening outfits they have each chosen to wear that day.

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In front of them, the jury responsible for choosing the candidates for the Miss Alès 2025 election: Marie-Charlotte Méré, former Miss Camargue 2005 and semi-finalist at Miss France 2006, now a member of the Miss Languedoc-Roussillon committee; Jade Benazech, current Miss Languedoc; Clara Crouzette, Miss Alès 2024; the Alès woman elected to the festivities Raphaële Navarro, also Miss Languedoc 2001; and Raphaël Vasquez, responsible for the festivities for the City.

“We are not here to judge you”

The team presents the afternoon's schedule to the candidates. First, a passage, one by one, for an official height measurement. Measuring at least 1.70m barefoot is a criterion imposed by the committee. They will then take turns for two passages in front of the jury: first in evening wear, then in a swimsuit. Between the two passages, each will introduce themselves orally and explain the reasons for their candidacy, to possibly answer any questions from the jury. “Tell us everything you want to tell us, who you are, why you are here,” insists Marie-Charlotte Méré in the preamble. “We are not here to judge you, reassures them Jade Benazech. It does not matter if you stutter!”

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One by one, each one paraded and made their presentation. To distinguish them and choose the 10 finalists, the jury had to evaluate their ease, their approach and their ways of doing things. To see if they were capable of becoming, for a year, the muse of an entire city. At the end of the day,“it was very difficult to choose, this year we have a very nice cast”, confided Raphaële Navarro. But the elected official does not hide her pride in this promotion: “All these young women had the will to come and present themselves. That is already a great mark of courage! To appear before a jury, then to appear on a stage in front of hundreds of people, it remains a very difficult exercise.”

As every year, the elected officials of Alès hope that the next Miss Languedoc is hiding here, whose final will be played in the capital of the Cévennes on August 1st, in the presence, here too, of Miss France. Enough to dream, perhaps, of becoming the next great beauty queen.

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