Tycoon Comments on Elections

Influential tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili said on September 5 that running in the October 5 local self-governance elections ?is not a goal in itself? for him.

Patarkatsishvili, who is currently holding consultations with the opposition New Rights party over his possible nomination for Tbilisi Mayoral candidate, told his television station, Imedi, that ?Georgia?s welfare and unification is my goal.?

?I will do everything to achieve this goal and if this goal requires me to run in any kind of election, I will not step back,? Patarkatsishvili said.

Earlier on September 5 MP Mamuka Katsitadze of the New Rights party said that Patarkatsishvili is currently studying all elections-related details before making a final decision whether or not to run.