TBILISI (Reuters) -- Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Thursday he wants to amend the constitution to hold presidential elections in 2008 at the same time as parliamentary elections.

"While we are still in this transition period I would like (presidential and parliamentary) elections to be held at the same time," Saakashvili told reporters at a briefing. "I intend to submit to parliament constitutional amendments on holding parliamentary and presidential elections at the same time, in 2008."

It was unclear whether the amendments would change just the next election or whether all future presidential elections to run at the same time as parliamentary polls.

Under the current constitution, presidential elections, which take place every five years, were planned for 2009 and parliamentary elections, which take place every four years, were planned for 2008.

Saakashvili, who came to power in the 2003 "Rose Revolution," won presidential elections in January 2004. In local elections this month, his party won a majority of the vote. "We do not want to have weak, divided and quarrelling leadership," Saakashvili said, adding that parliament and the president "should stay together or should be changed together." "Let the people decide who should be the next president and the next parliament but let them decide it at the same time."