Miss Palestine calls out 'unjust' public polling

Nadeen Ayoub says she was leading the Most Beautiful People category. However, within two minutes, another contestant went up by over 20,000 votes

- By Manjusha Radhakrishnan

Miss Palestine Nadeen Ayoub, who made history as the first woman from her country to participate at Miss Universe 2025, has publicly questioned the transparency of the Miss Universe app’s fan voting after an abrupt spike in votes shifted the results of the “Most Beautiful People” category shortly before it closed.

In a video posted on her social media pages on November 23rd night, she framed her concern as an issue of fairness rather than disappointment or defeat.

“I really want to address something very, very important,” she said.

“I’m someone that really stands for justice, I stand for what's right.”

Her comments focused specifically on the app-based fan voting system, not on the judging or outcome of the pageant itself.

PROBLEMATIC VOTING

Miss Palestine explained that while other fan-voted categories on the Miss Universe app had closed and winners were announced, the “Most Beautiful People” category remained open.

“Lately, I was leading in the voting category on the Miss Universe app for the most beautiful people, and it was the only category on the application that didn’t close, and they didn’t award anyone out of all of the other categories, even though the competition was over,” she said.