Bachelet: Chile left's hope in presidential vote
Bachelet: Chile left's hope in presidential vote
12:48p.m. EDT March 16, 2013
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Michelle Bachelet has a deep resume: daughter of a general tortured to death for opposing a coup, leftist exile during the ensuing bloody dictatorship, pediatrician, Cabinet member, mother, president, head of the U.N. women's agency.
Now she's coming back home after her stint at the United Nations, and if Chile's left has its way, she will add another item to that list: savior.
Bachelet, 62, who announced her return Friday night, is widely seen as the center-left opposition's only hope of winning the Nov. 17 presidential election and taking power back from the conservative establishment ushered in when Sebastian Pinera won the presidency in 2010 after she left office.
The popularity of this Andean country's only woman president is high. She ended her presidential term with nearly 80 percent approval ratings. And a recent poll by CEP Estudios Publicos consultancy said if the elections were to be held today she would easily win the presidency with 54 percent of the votes.
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