BAGHDAD, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 15 leading Iraqi parties called on Friday to delay the scheduled January elections by atleast six months, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV reported.

    The parties signed a petition to demand the elections, slatedfor Jan. 30, 2005, be postponed by at least six months citing security concerns in the violence-ravaged country, the report said.Prominent Sunni politician and former Iraqi presidential

    candidate Adnan Pachachi led the move.

    One representative from Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party was among those petitioners. Enditem