On 11–13 March 1990, several pro-independence Georgian political organizations held conference in Tbilisi to elect a coordinating body for their activities - National Forum.

On 12 March 1992, they organized a Georgian Supreme Council session in Grozny and formed the government in exile under Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

They declared the Military Junta as illegal and continued to regard the disbanded Supreme Council as Georgia’s sole legitimate parliament.

Mingrelia, Gamsakhurdia’s home region, refused to obey to the post-coup government of Eduard Shevardnadze, and by August 1993 it came under almost full control of pro-Gamsakhurdia militias.

[2] On 26 August 1991, the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia approved the prime minister–designate Besarion Gugushvili, who presented his economic program to the Parliament in support of state capitalism.

It argued in favor of transition from socialist planned economy but also denounced calls for implementation of shock therapy and mass privatization.

It argued that the state sector should be run on democratic, national, patriotic principles, unlike the Soviet system, which was totalitarian and social-imperialistic tool of plundering the colonies like Georgia.

The task of the organization was to function as a coordinating body for advocacy of the recognition of Soviet republics which had chosen not to sign the Mikhail Gorbachev’s New Union Treaty and had moved to set up independent states instead.