His father was also the Prime Minister of Georgia and the founder of the Georgian party Georgian Dream–Democratic Georgia, that forged a center-left alliance in the 2012 Georgian elections against ruling United National Movement and winning the election.
His appointment was the result of agreement between President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and Minister of Defense Irakli Alasania, who then represented opposing political parties since the defeat of Saakashvili's United National Movement in favor of Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream coalition, of which Alasania was a member, in the 2012 parliamentary election.
It is a reformist party and favors closer ties with NATO and the European Union, as well as the restoration of Tbilisi's control over the separatist self-proclaimed states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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He was a Sticharosani (The owner of Sticharion, it's the lowest title in Georgian Orthodox Church, the owners of this title are especially secular persons) in Gori Cathedral, an activist of the United National Movement and Vice-President of self-government of the students in GSU.
In March 2004, he was elected to the Parliament of Georgia from Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement party list and has since been a member of a Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sports.