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On 15 January 2006, she went on to face Piñera in the runoff election and won the presidency with 53.5% of the vote, becoming Chile's first female president and the first woman in Latin America to reach the presidency through a direct election without being the wife of a previous head of state or political leader. [37] [38]
First female president of Chile. Supported by the center-left coalition Concertación. 34 Sebastián Piñera (1949–2024) 11 March 2010 11 March 2014 4 years National Renewal: 2010: First democratically elected conservative president since 1958. Supported by the Coalition for Change. (33) Michelle Bachelet (born 1951) 11 March 2014 11 March ...
Michelle Bachelet was the first female president of Chile, leading the country between 2006 and 2010. [23] During her presidency, Bachelet increased the budget of the National Women's Service (Servicio Nacional de la Mujer, SERNAM) and helped the institution gain funding from the United Nations Development Fund for Women. [8]
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by the countries in South America and by dates of appointment. Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office.
Sebastián Piñera assumed office as President of Chile. 5 August – 13 October: Copiapó mining accident. 2011: 2011 student protests, and later massive protest claiming for better education and economic equality. 2014: Michelle Bachelet assumed office as President of Chile as the first woman to be reelected. 2017: July 16: Snowfall in the ...
The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three subsequent elections, remaining in office for a total of 16 years, which makes her the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history. [5] [2]
At around 1430h each of the regiments of military and police cadets from all three military academies and the Carabineros School assemble at the Champ de Mars, where at 1500h, as each of the academies' bands play the National Anthem of Chile, the President, together with the Commander of the Army and the Minister of National Defense, inspect ...
The Chilean constitution was passed under tight military control in 1980, and was designed to lead to a plebiscite in which the Chilean people would ratify a candidate proposed by the Chief of Staff of the Chilean Armed Forces and by the General Director of the Carabineros, the national police force, and who would become the President of Chile for an eight-year term.