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Iraqi Sunnis demonstrate against election results
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-24 08:54
Thousands of Sunni Arabs on Friday demonstrated in the street of Baghdad
against the partial results of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections announced by
the electoral commission, calling for a re-vote.
The demonstrators held Iraqi national flags, banners and big pictures of
Sunni political leaders in the street in southern Baghdad after Friday's
prayers, said Xinhua photographer at the scene.
Adnan al-Dulaimi, a leader from the main Sunni Arab coalition, the Iraqi
Accordance Front accused the elections as fraudulent. He spoke to the
demonstrators from the balcony of a building and demanded that the elections be
re-run.
The Iraqi Electoral Commission announced the partial results of the Dec. 15
elections on Monday, which showed that the Shiite coalition won most of the
votes in Baghdad and other Shiite provinces.
However, Sunni and secular Shiite parties have recently accused the
provisional election results as fraudulent.
On Thursday, 33 Iraqi political parties decided to form a new bloc in protest
against the announced partial results of the elections and threatened to boycott
the newly elected parliament if its complaints are not dealt with.
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