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Chile gets first woman president
Centre-left candidate Michelle Bachelet
has become Chile's first woman
president, taking 53.5% of the poll
with almost all the votes counted.
Her rival, conservative businessman
Sebastian Pinera, has admitted defeat.
Giving a victory speech to cheering
supporters, Ms Bachelet said: "Who
would have said, 10, 15 years ago, that
a woman would be elected president?"
The election is the fourth since Chile
returned to democracy in 1990 after 17
years of military rule.
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