 British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has urged Iraqi politicians to accept the final results of last month's polls, saying true democrats must acknowledge it is just as easy to lose elections as win them. Some Sunni Arab and secular politicians say the December 15 parliamentary election was fraudulent. They have demanded a rerun, although Iraq's Electoral Commission insists it was largely fair. The United Nations agrees. Mr Straw is in Baghdad to hold talks with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He says the 70 per cent voter turnout shows Iraqis want to embrace democracy. "The Iraqi people showed us that they are going to defy the people of violence and that democracy burns in the souls and hearts of Iraqi people in the same way it does in people across the world," he said. |