Michelle Bachelet was elected as Chile’s president again on Sunday in a landslide victory that hands the center-leftist the mandate she sought to push ahead with wide-reaching reforms.
Bachelet won with about 62 percent support, the highest proportion of votes any presidential candidate has obtained since Chile returned to holding democratic elections in 1989.
Elections are due to take place in 2015, however the government in Bangui exerts little control even within the capital.
More than 1,600 French troops deployed this month to try to stop the violence that has displaced more than 680,000 people – nearly one-seventh of the country’s inhabitants – according to the United Nations.
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Bachelet also plans to change the Pinochet-era constitution and electoral system.
Video uploaded by local activists showed a fire in a narrow street covered in debris and dust after one air raid in the Karam el-Beik district. Another showed blackened and twisted wreckage of a vehicle at a busy roundabout.
A physician by training, air max 1 Bachelet is a moderate socialist and has promised 50 reforms in her first 100 days, once she takes office in March.
Bachelet returned to Chile earlier this year to run for the presidency after a spell heading the United Nations’ gender equality body, U.N. Women.
Politically naive when she was elected eight years ago, she is now a more sophisticated operator and is in a better position to get things done, those close to her say.
Her opponent, Matthei, a brusque former labor minister, was a last-minute choice for Alianza in July and struggled to gain traction against Bachelet.
Finance Minister Christophe Mbremaidou, who Kodegue said had been unreachable during the crisis, Nike Zoom Kobe was also sacked, along with Rural Development Minister Joseph Bedounga, who was accused of criticizing the government during the violence.
The wide majority in Sunday’s vote “will give her momentum going into government,” said political scientist Kenneth Bunker. “But she’s still going to have to negotiate in Congress.”
The Britain-based Observatory said at least 15 of the casualties on Sunday were children.
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The president-elect also faces high expectations from those who voted her in, and she is not likely to be given much of a honeymoon once her four-year term starts.
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