Michelle Bachelet
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Michelle Bachelet Bachelet
Michelle Bachelet is the front-runner, who would be the first woman to be elected president in Chile; and her rival, Sebastián Piñera, would be the first billionaire to hold that office there. Bachelet, whose age is 54, a pediatrician who has not held an elective office but who has been minister of health and defense, she is the daughter of a general who died in prison after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in 1973. She had three children by two men, one of whom she never married, and lived with another who had links to a guerrilla group, according to recent biographies. She is not married and known as a single mother.