President of Georgia and former diplomat
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Georgia's first woman president and its last popularly elected one — a French diplomat who switched flags, negotiated Russian troop withdrawals, then wound up locked in a standoff with the government that backed her, refusing to leave office after an election she calls illegitimate.
Born in Paris in 1952 to Georgian refugees, Salomé Zourabichvili spent three decades climbing France's diplomatic ladder before serving as its ambassador to Georgia in 2003. A year later she took Georgian citizenship by presidential agreement and became the country's foreign minister, where she brokered a treaty pulling Russian forces from undisputed Georgian territory. Disagreements with the ruling party led her to found her own in 2006, then run as an independent; she won the presidency in 2018 with Georgian Dream's endorsement. The alliance fractured during the 2020 political crisis and sha…
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