Sandy Tabet wins Miss Lebanon title for 2016

24 October 2016 English

Mideast Miss Lebanon — Lebanese Sandy Tabet, 22, fixes her crown after winning the Miss Lebanon 2016 contest at Casino Du Liban in Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, late Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Sandy Tabet, 22, fixes her crown after winning the Miss Lebanon 2016 contest at Casino Du Liban in Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, late Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (AP)

Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Sunday, 23 October 2016

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The 22-year-old Sandy Tabet has won Miss Lebanon title for 2016 in an event that saw 15 women competing for the crown on Saturday.

Contestants of the Miss Lebanon 2016 beauty pageant show themselves in swimsuits during the beauty pageant at Casino Du Liban in Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, late Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (AP)

The judges were Lebanon’s famous personalities including media icon Marsail Ghanem, actress Hiba Tuwaiji and fashion designer Zuhair Murad, all of whom asked the final contestants a uniform question: What’s the first decision you would make if elected as president.

Tabet said she would get rid of Lebanon’s trash issue, which she dubbed as a “black cloud” that would soon “go away.”

The country’s waste-management system collapsed in July last year after the closure of the capital Beirut’s main landfill, and ever since the untreated garbage has piled up on the streetside, making it to the media headlines.

Contestants of the Miss Lebanon 2016 beauty pageant pose in their dress during the beauty pageant at Casino Du Liban in Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, late Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (AP)

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