BAGHDAD, Dec. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Thirty-three Iraqi political parties decided on Thursday to form a new bloc in protest against the partial results of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections and threatened to boycott the newly elected parliament.

    More than 100 politicians and representatives of various groups, including Sunni Arabs and secular Shiites, attended a meeting in the headquarters of the former prime minister Iyad Allawi on Thursday and made the decision.

    "We demand formation of an international panel to investigate violations and irregularities of the elections and to prepare for a proxy election," the bloc consisting of the 33 groups, who ran in the Dec. 15 elections, said in its first statement.

    The statement demanded the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, which supervised the ballot, be dissolved for being responsible for more than 1,250 fraud complaints during the polls and asked international organizations, including the United Nations, to review the results.

    "If they reject all these demands, then all these parties will reject the results of the elections, which entails boycott for the coming parliament," the statement said.

    Ayham al-Samarraie, a Sunni party leader and the former electricity minister in Allawi's interim government, said "we agree on the path mentioned in the new bloc's statement." However, he warned that the parties will adopt other options to achieve their goals if their request is rejected.

    Moreover, he said that millions of Iraqis will take to streets on Friday to protest against the fraud of the elections.

    Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Consensus Front, Allawi, head of the Iraqi National List and secular Sunni Salih al-Mutlak, head of the Iraqi Front of National Dialogue, attended the meeting.

    On Monday, the Iraqi electoral commission announced that the turnout in the elections was nearly 70 percent and the partial results of the elections showed that the Shiite coalition won most of the votes in Baghdad and other Shiite provinces.

    Dulaimi's Sunni Arab coalition, Mutlak's political group and Allawi's coalition said earlier that they have reservations on the partial results.

    A final result is not expected till early January. Enditem