The Miss Italy beauty pageant is
opening its entrance requirements to competitors born in Italy
to immigrant parents, even if they do not have citizenship,
organizers said Monday.
The event, to be broadcast in September on television
network La7, opens the contest to women whose parents have lived
in Italy for at least 18 years continuously but for bureaucratic
reasons, do not yet have citizenship.
The changes come on the 75th anniversary of the
competition, which in the early days was a radio broadcast,
later saw its rules relaxed to include married women and
mothers, and saw its first black winner in 1996.
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