• Eyes either PM's or Parliamentary Speaker's post;
• Says will quit politics in two-three years after achieving goals;
• Says to sell businesses in Russia;
• Plans to revoke his Russian and French citizenship;
• "Starting sorting out relations" with Russia;
• "Deepening friendship and integration with U.S., EU";

In a lengthy written statement released on October 7 a billionaire philanthropist Bidzina Ivanishvili explained reasons behind his decision to go into politics, outlined key points of his agenda, saying that wants "to win absolute majority" in the 2012 parliamentary elections.

"President Saakashvili's total monopoly on power and constitutional amendments, which clearly reveal Saakashvili's intention to maintain power and stay in leadership beyond any constitutional term, prompted my decision to establish a political party and to run in the 2012 parliamentary elections," Ivanishvili said in the statement.

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