Paris, Sept 12, SPA -- French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepinsaid Monday that his job is keeping him too busy to thinkabout the 2007 presidential elections, despite speculationthat he is being groomed to succeed Jacques Chirac. "The question has not come up," Villepin told RMC-Inforadio. "I am entirely focused on my job." Villepin, a longtime ally of Chirac, is widely seen as acontender for the presidency if the 72-year-old leaderdeclines to seek another term. Villepin, France's formerforeign minister, will stand in for Chirac at a U.N. summitlater this week. Chirac was advised to cancel foreign travel following aweeklong hospital stay for what doctors described as a"small vascular accident" that impaired vision in one eye.--SPA1241 Local Time 0941 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/289034