[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Chile gets first woman president

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:13:26 +0100
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Last Updated: Monday, 16 January 2006, 02:41 GMT  


      Chile gets first woman president 

     
             
            Large crowds have gathered to celebrate Michelle Bachelet's win 
      Centre-left candidate Michelle Bachelet has become Chile's first woman 
president, taking 53.5% of the poll with almost all the votes counted. 
      Her rival, conservative businessman Sebastian Pinera, has admitted 
defeat. 

      Giving a victory speech to cheering supporters, Ms Bachelet said: "Who 
would have said, 10, 15 years ago, that a woman would be elected president?" 

      The election is the fourth since Chile returned to democracy in 1990 
after 17 years of military rule. 

      Outgoing President Ricardo Lagos hailed the election of Chile's first 
woman leader as a "historic triumph". 

      Pay homage 

      Mr Pinera, who had 46.5% of the vote with 97.5% counted, was also quick 
to congratulate Ms Bachelet. 

            


            Winner looks ahead  
      He said he wanted to "pay homage to all those millions and millions of 
women who with much strength and tenacity have finally achieved the place and 
the situation they deserve in our society". 

      Ms Bachelet thanked the thousands of enthusiastic supporters who gathered 
outside her campaign headquarters in the capital, Santiago. 

      She called on the whole country to work together to solve its problems 
and repeated her promise to bring more jobs and social justice to Chile. 

      The BBC's Daniel Schweimler in Santiago says thousands of people have 
been waving flags, blowing whistles and chanting slogans in the streets, with 
many more honking their horns as they drive round the city. 

      It took less than three hours after the polls closed for it to became 
clear the 54-year-old would be the next president and for the celebrations to 
begin. 

      Ms Bachelet has promised continuity, as head of the coalition which has 
led Chile for the past 16 years, but has also pledged change. 

      She has said she is keen to bridge the gap between rich and poor and to 
give a greater voice to women and indigenous people. 

      And, our correspondent says, more women are expected to be appointed to 
public office. 

      Unusual choice 

      The second round of voting was called after no candidate secured the 50% 
required for outright victory in the first round in December. 

            

      Ms Bachelet, who won 46% of the vote then, went into the run-off ballot 
leading the opinion polls. 

      The former defence minister will become the fourth consecutive president 
from the centre-left coalition known as the Concertacion, which has governed 
Chile since the end of military rule in 1990. 

      A doctor and a single mother, Ms Bachelet was seen as an unusual choice 
for the presidency in a country considered one of the most socially 
conservative in South America. 

      Mr Pinera - who polled 25% in December - was given the backing of 
third-placed candidate, Joaquin Lavin, who received 23% in that vote. 

      However, the billionaire businessman and former senator appears not to 
have picked up all the right-wing vote previously given to Mr Lavin. 


     

SOUTH AMERICAN WOMEN PRESIDENTS 
Michelle Bachelet - elected Chile's first woman leader, 2006 
Janet Jagan - elected Guyana's leader in 1997 after the death of her husband, 
the previous president
Lidia Gueiler Tejada - served as interim president of Bolivia following a coup, 
1979-80
Isabel Martinez de Peron - sworn in as interim president of Argentina in 1974 
when husband Juan Peron fell ill and died; kept power until 1976
Rosalia Arteaga - briefly acted as president of Ecuador in 1997

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