Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani today said he would decide next year whether to run as a Republican US presidential candidate in 2008.
"I won't decide until next year," Giuliani told a business conference in Sydney. "I can't make that decision yet, it's a little premature to make it."
Giuliani, who joined a Texas-based law firm in March, went from being a mob-busting federal prosecutor in New York to the Republican mayor who guided the city through the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre.
He also introduced what many believed to be a ver succesful 'zero-tolerance' policy on crime in the city.