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                 Bachelet Set for Return to Chile's Presidency

   Chileans voted Sunday in a runoff election likely to hand Socialist
   former President Michelle Bachelet a new four-year term.
   Pre-election surveys give Bachelet, who was president from 2006 to
   2010, an overwhelming margin of support over her right-wing rival,
   Evelyn Matthei, an economist and former labor minister.
   In the first round of voting last month, Bachelet, a 62-year-old
   pediatrician, won nearly twice as many votes as Matthei, a 60-year-old
   economist and former labor minister.
   But Bachelet fell just short of the 50 percent needed to win outright,
   pushing the vote into a runoff.
   Bachelet wants to raise corporate taxes to pay for wide-ranging
   education reform, shred the dictatorship-era constitution, and legalize
   abortion under certain circumstances.
   Matthei is a staunch conservative opposing tax increases aimed at
   reducing Chile's high levels of inequality.
   The two were neighbors during their childhood on a military base in
   northern Chile, where their fathers were Air Force generals who became
   close friends.
   But while Bachelet's father died after being tortured for remaining
   loyal to leftist president Salvador Allende in the 1973 coup, Matthei's
   father supported the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
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