Candidate 1:
Michelle Bachelet, agnostic, Socialist, divorced mother of 3, a woman.
Candidate 2:
Sebastián Piñera, billionaire, conservative, owner of Chilevisión(a Chilean television channel), Catholic, and part of the center-right National Renewal (RN) party, a man.
A little background on Chile: Divorce wasn't legal there until 2 years ago, 89% of the country is Catholic, they have a very open economy in South America (Low taxes). Only 4% of senators are women.
And the winner, with 53.3% of the votes :
http://66.218.71.231/language/trans...fr=FP-tab-web-t
I guess democracy still works. Yes, she does have other qualifications to make her a good leader. And none of those things stated above about her are bad, but still in that country they wouldn't help you much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4087510.stm