Bachelet likely to win in Chile election Chileans are going to polls on Sunday in a presidential run-off that is likely to hand power back to former President Michelle Bachelet. Her right-wing rival, Evelyn Matthei, had lost ground going into voting day due to her family's ties with the General Pinochet dictatorship. Bachelet won nearly twice as many votes as Matthei in the first round of the election in November.