Gugushvili was appointed as Prime Minister on 26 August 1991, following the resignation of Tengiz Sigua.

A close associate of President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he followed him into exile following the Georgian Civil War and took part in the 1993 uprising.

After the failure of the uprising and Gamsakhurdia's death, Gugushvili was granted political asylum in Finland.

In his time in exile, Gugushvili has criticised what he considers to be the decreasing role of religion in Georgian life, as well as the spread of globalist and liberal ideas.

[2] He has also claimed that the Soviet Union, Turkish drug dealers, the government of the United States (in particular, then-President George H. W. Bush, Secretary of State James Baker, and Georgian, Polish-born General John Shalikashvili), Greek business interests, and German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher caused the fall of Gamsakhurdia's government and Eduard Shevardnadze's seizure of power.