[2] Gachechiladze first became involved in politics in 2003 when he lent his support to the opposition movement against the government of Eduard Shevardnadze.
[3] The subsequent protests eventually propelled Mikheil Saakashvili to the leadership of Georgia, of whom Gachechiladze soon ran afoul.
He was one of the key persons in the anti-Saakashvili protests in 2009, when the opposition constructed a "cell town" to block Rustaveli Avenue, the main thoroughfare in Georgia's capital Tbilisi.
5, a reality show in which he had been living and holding meetings in a symbolic cell at the opposition Maestro TV building.
[4] After Saakashvili lost power to the Georgian Dream coalition led by the tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili in 2012, Gachechiladze cultivated close ties with the new ruling party and enjoyed frequent airtime on pro-government television stations while also running his own TV show utsnobis kidobani ("Utsnobi's Ark").