Three major Sunni Arab parties announced Wednesday they have formed a new gathering to contest in the country's coming parliamentary elections due on Dec. 15.

Leaders of the three parties announced the new group in a news conference.

They told the reporters that the People of Iraq Gathering, the Iraqi Islamic Party and Iraqi Council of the National Dialogue agreed to form the Iraqi Consensus Front which would be open for other Iraqis joint the gathering.

The gathering called on Iraqis to vote in the coming elections and not listen to the boycott calls.

Source: Xinhua