‘This is what Georgia deserves. By [winning the election] we paid respect to our ancestors’, he said. ‘With just this method, the most civilized and the most powerful states are brought to their knees — they [agents?] Nations are being mashed together and this is the kind of perverted way of life they created for them’, he continued. Ivanishvili followed this by saying that Georgia is the only state in the world that managed to expel agents, mentioning the former ruling party the United National Movement (UNM).