Bachelet goes to second round of Chile presidential elections

Left-wing candidate Michelle Bachelet has won the first round of voting in Chile's presidential election, the BBC reported. But with most of the votes counted, Bachelet has conceded that she has failed to reach an outright majority and avoid a run-off. She took nearly 47% of the vote. Her main rival, Evelyn Matthei, who was a minister in the centre-right government of Sebastian Pinera, got 25%. A second round of voting will take place on 15 December. "Reaching the second is undoubtedly a great triumph," Matthei posted on her Twitter account. "When this project began, many doubted we would be here. But here we are," she wrote. She told supporters in Santiago: "The country has mostly voted for the proposal that we have made for Chile, so that Chile will be once and for all the modern and fair country that we want.