He first rose to prominence as a lawyer who represented victims of the 2013 Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse,[1] and was the prime ministerial candidate for the Who Owns the State?

[10] Gobzems began representing victims of the Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse in November 2013, the largest single loss of life in Latvia since its restoration of independence in 1991.

[13] On November 28, 2018, the collegium revoked Gobzems' law license over comments made about the murder of insolvence administrator Mārtiņš Bunkus that were deemed inappropriate.

Gobzems criticized the action taken as politically motivated and aimed at preventing him from obtaining the position of Prime Minister of Latvia that he had been nominated to two days prior by President Raimonds Vējonis.

[22] Although he had initially called on the president to hold early elections if his proposal were to be rejected, Gobzems instead offered a new four-party coalition that would not include the Union of Greens and Farmers.

[26] Relations between Gobzems and Kaimiņš reached their lowest point during the January 23 vote to confirm Kariņš' government, with the two using their speaking time during the discussion to insult and accuse one another of corruption.

deputies voted against the government despite their party's membership in the coalition, and two days later he testified against Kaimiņš to the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau over an alleged bribe.

[36] On April 18, 2019, Gobzems was invited by the Constitution Protection Bureau for an interview regarding the clearance process, after which he expressed doubt that he would be granted access and promised to appeal such a decision.

[45] On 20 June of that year, Stepaņenko and fellow Saeima deputy Ļubova Švecova announced that they were leaving the party due to Gobzems' controversial use of the Star of David imagery to protest COVID-19 measures.

[10] During the 2018 parliamentary election, he spoke negatively of the country's political elite and claimed that politicians and the media were covering up massive scandals and keeping the population in poverty.

[49] One of his most major proposals has been the elimination of the "coalition council" discussion group between parties participating in government that meets regularly to set their policy agenda, which Gobzems has described as an "unconstitutional organization".

[51][52] Gobzems has been relatively open to working with the Harmony parliamentary faction, saying that quite many of his voters do not object to that, but in reality that is impossible at the moment[53] and did not invite them into his potential coalition when he was nominated to become prime minister.

into coalition for allegedly being a tool of businessman and politician Edgars Jaunups,[54] but he did invite the Union of Greens and Farmers despite having previously criticized that party for connections with oligarch Aivars Lembergs.

On 5 July 2021, the Saeima Mandate, Ethics and Submissions Committee initiated disciplinary action against Gobzems for photographing himself wearing a Star of David badge on his chest, equating different opportunities for vaccinated and unvaccinated people in Latvia with treatment of Jewish people during the Holocaust by the Nazi[56] On 30 August 2021, he was fined by state police a total of 2,350 for organizing an unauthorized public protest against possible compulsory vaccination measure.