The former French diplomat Salomé Zourabichvili future president of Georgia?

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Salomé Zurabichvili, a presidential candidate supported by the ruling party, the Georgian Dream Party, reacts with her children, Teimuraz and Ketevan, at the last meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia, on October 25, 2018. REUTERS / David Mdzinarishvili

A French woman could become president of Georgia Sunday, October 28.
Salomé Zourabichvili, born in Paris in 1952 to a Georgian family who fled the Bolsheviks in the 1920s, is a candidate in the country of her origins, after giving up her French passport. A country where this veteran diplomat becomes in March 2004 Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position she will occupy 19 months before going into opposition to the then President, Mikheil Saakashvili. Today she presents herself as an independent candidate, but supported by the party of the oligarch Bidzina Ivanichvili, who reigns over the country. A vote for a position now rather honorary, but is a "test" for the informal governance of the billionaire.

Salomé Zourabichvili in a meeting in Tbilisi - Report 26/10/2018 - by Régis Genté Play