As protesters confronted massed ranks of riot police in front of Georgia's parliament last week, a slightly built woman picked her way through the crowd. At a moment of national crisis, President Salome Zourabichvili had decided she needed to be with the people on the streets.

An illegitimate parliament will not be able to elect a new head of state, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said.

Georgia’s president will not step down until ‘illegitimate’ election rerun Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said she will not leave office when her term ends because the parliament is “illegitimate”,