IHT: Brief look at centrist Francois Bayrou's platform

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Brief look at centrist Francois Bayrou's platform

In an AP interview, French presidential candidate Francois Bayrou said his priority if elected would be fighting exclusion in France's depressed city outskirts, rocked by rioting by largely immigrant youth in 2005.

Bayrou also wants Europe to counterbalance U.S. power and France fully independent of Washington. "The power of a single superpower creates a more dangerous world," he says on his Web site. On Turkey he is opposed to Turkish entry in the European Union, says the nation is not European and suggests it be treated as a "privileged partner" instead.