Voters at loggerheads ahead of Georgia's 'front line' election

Supporters of the Georgian Dream party attend a final campaign rally ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tbilisi, Georgia October 23, 2024. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/File Photo

TBILISI (Reuters) - Nana Malashkhia never planned to get into politics.

But the 48-year-old former civil servant shot to fame in Georgia during the 2023 protests against a law on so-called "foreign agents" after she was filmed waving a European Union flag whilst being blasted by a police water cannon.