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Michelle Bachelet
Veronica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born September 29 1951) is a center-left politician and the current President of Chilethe first woman to hold this position in the country's history. She won the 2006 presidential election in a runoff, beating center-right billionaire businessman and former senator Sebastian Pinera, with 53.5% of the vote. A moderate Socialist, she campaigned on a platform of continuing Chile's free market policies, while increasing social benefits to help reduce the country's gap between rich and poor, one of the largest in the world. She was inaugurated on March 11 2006.
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