page_title: Michelle Bachelet
section_title: Other legislation passed
hierarchical_section_title: Michelle Bachelet / First presidency (2006–2010) / Domestic affairs / Other legislation passed
caption_attribution_description: Español: Presidenta de Chile Michelle Bachelet inaugurando el centro cultural Agustín Ross junto a alcalde de Pichilemu Roberto Córdova.
context_page_description: Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018 for the Socialist Party of Chile, the first woman to occupy the position. After leaving the presidency in 2010 and while not immediately reelectable, she was appointed the first executive director of the newly created United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In December 2013, Bachelet was reelected with over 62% of the vote, bettering the 54% she obtained in 2006. She was the first President of Chile to be reelected since 1932.
  In August 2018, the United Nations nominated her to become the next High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing Zeid Raad Al Hussein.
  Bachelet, a physician who has studied military strategy at university level, was Health Minister and Defense Minister under her predecessor, Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and describes herself as an agnostic. Aside from her native Spanish, she also speaks, with varying levels of fluency, English, German, and Portuguese.
context_section_description: In August 2008, Bachelet signed a freedom of information bill into law, which became effective in April 2009.
  In January 2010, Bachelet enacted a law creating the Ministry for the Environment. The new legislation also created the Environmental Evaluation Service and the Superintendency for the Environment.
  Half of the ministries in her first government were occupied by women; in her successor's team, Sebastián Piñera, 18% were.
caption: President Bachelet with Mayor of Pichilemu Roberto Córdova in January 2010, during the re-inauguration of the Agustín Ross Cultural Centre
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