Infantry patrol officers have received 3-week special retraining courses at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; all of them know one or more foreign languages.

With both Russia and Georgia being members of the organization, the Russian delegation arrived to take part in the session in the Georgian parliament.

Indeed, on 3 September, Bidzina Ivanishvili, chairman of the Georgian Dream party, nominated him as a candidate for prime minister.

The situation in the country at the time: Nika Melia, chairman of the United National Movement party, was accused of organizing mass violence during the anti-government protests in 2019.

[10] The ruling Georgian Dream party supported Irakli Garibashvili to replace Gakharia, and the Parliament voted 89–2 to appoint him on 22 February.

In January 2025, he suffered a fractured nasal bone and a concussion after being attacked at a hotel in Batumi, which his party blamed on Georgian Dream and its leader Bidzina Ivanishvili.