As we all know other counties in the world have elected women
presidents unlike the United States who has yet to have a women in
the presidency. I would like to introduce you to Chile's first
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| Presidenta Michelle Bachelet |
female Presidenta (president), Michelle
Bachele.
Bachelet became the first female
Socialist president. One of her main goals was to shirk the economic
gap between the rich and the poor. She won 53% of the votes from
Chile's center-left coalition. Bachelet's opposition Sebastian Pinera
took 47% of the votes by the government.
Background:
She was 54 years of age when she was elected in
2006. She is a trained doctor and has a degree in Military science. She attended the University of Chile. At the university she became student leader and became involved with the Unidad Popular of Salvador Allende and participated in the Youth Socialist Movement.
Her father was a general in the Arm Forces and was a supporter of Allende. The same day of the Pinochet's coup "over through", Allende the soldiers took General Bachelet and he was accused of treason. He later died of a heart attack from the torture he had be put though. Michelle continued her education, but in 1975 Michelle and her mother were detained by the soldiers and where taken to a detention center. When released they fled as exiles to Austria and East Germany. She continued her medical school in Germany. She also got married (to another Chilean exile) and had two children. She finally returned to Chile in1979 where she became a surge in 1984; and specialized for 4 years in pediatrics and public health.
Political Background:She became politically active with different organizations to help restore democracy in Chile.She got hired to work with children who had be traumatized by the dictatorship. In 1990 when democracy was restored there was a need for professionals to help restore Chiles public health system, so she was hired as an epidemiologist.
She was later "chosen by the Central Committee of the Socialist Party to run for the city council of the Santiago-area district of Las Condes in 1996. In 1998, she was chosen by the party’s Central Committee to join its Political Committee." In 2000 she was appointed as Minister of Public Health; one of her task was to eliminate the waiting list for people to be able to use the public hospital; she was able to reduce this waiting list by 90% with in her first 100 days of her appointment. In 2002 she was appointed to the Minister of Defense where she promoted reconcile gestures between the military and victims of the dictatorship; as well as, introduced gender policies intended to improve the conditions of women in the military and police forces. She was the first women to be given this title in Chile, as well in Latin America.
PRESIDENTA:
Bachelet has support and her popularity was at a peek.She was asked by the PPD (Party for Democracy) and Socialist Parties to be there candidate. In 2004 she resigned from her position of Minister of Defense to focus on the election and her presidential campaign. In 2006 she won the election and became the first president in Chile. She was also the first woman who was not the wife of a previous head of state or political leader to reach the presidency of Latin America in a direct election. Her cabinet was equal in gender as she had promised in her election gender equality.
http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/directorate/former-ed-michelle-bachelet/biographical-sketch-michelle-bachelet/
http://www.remezcla.com/2011/latin/women-presidents-government-officials-latin-america/
http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/directorate/former-ed-michelle-bachelet/
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