Former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet has apparently emerged victorious in a key party primary over the weekend, allowing her to run in this November’s Presidential Election.

Bachelet’s time in office from started out with some rough spots in 2006, but by the time Chile’s first female president left office in 2010 she enjoyed a 70 percent approval rating and remains popular to this day.

Since then, she spent the past three years in New York as head of the United Nations gender equality agency.

Voters on 17 November will choose a successor to the current right-wing billionaire President Sebastian Pinera.  Chile’s constitution prevents politicians from serving consecutive terms. 

Pinera’s popularity has dropped considerably in the past couple of years after a series of misogynist gaffes and his utter indifference to massive student protests demanding more public investment into public education.  His center-left alliance lost some key local races considered harbingers, notably in the capital of Santiago.