<P> In September 2015, when NBC cancelled all business relationships with Trump and the Miss Universe Organization, in response to ccontroversial statements about illegal immigrants who crossed the border from Mexico . As part of the legal settlement, in September 2015, Trump bought out NBC's 50% stake in the company making him the company's sole owner . Three days later he sold the whole company to WME / IMG . Following the change of ownership, in October 2015, Fox and Azteca became the official broadcasters of the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants . The current president of the Miss Universe Organization is Paula Shugart, who has held this position since 1998 . </P> <P> For a country to participate in the Miss Universe, a local company or a person, should buy the local rights of the competition, through a franchise fee, which involves the rights of image, brand and everything related to the pageant. Often, the owner of this franchise for contractual breaches or financial reasons, returns the franchise to the Miss Universe Organization, which resells it to a new stakeholder . Something that is recurrently common in the history of the event. The number of candidates in the contest is inconstant, precisely, because of the question of the franchisees . In addition, there are problems related to the calendar of the pageant. For example, in Miss Universe 2016 were 80 candidates, the following year, the number jumped to 92 . </P> <P> Usually a country's candidate selection involves pageants in your local subdivisions, whose winners compete in a national pageant, but there are some exceptions . For example, from 2000 to 2004, Australian delegates were chosen by a modelling agency . Although such "castings" are generally discouraged by the Miss Universe Organization, Jennifer Hawkins was chosen to represent the country in Miss Universe in 2004 (where she would eventually win the crown). When Australia resumed its national pageant in the later year, Michelle Guy became Miss Universe Australia 2005 . </P> <P> Recent arrivals in the last ten years of the pageant include: Serbia, Montenegro and Tanzania (2007), Kosovo (2008), Gabon and Lithuania (2012), Azerbaijan (2013), Sierra Leone (2016), and Cambodia, Laos and Nepal (2017). </P>

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