Baghdad  - Iraqi parliament adopted on Wednesday a new provincial elections law after months of heated dispute on the issue of power-sharing in the multi-ethnic Kirkuk.

"The Iraqi parliament had unanimously adopted a provincial elections law," lawmaker Ahmed Anwar of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc, told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

The head of the Fadila party, Hassan Shammari said earlier that the parliamentary blocs reached a consensus on the article related to Kirkuk, the oil rich northern area inhabited by Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen.

The Iraqi Federal Government and local authorities in Kirkuk had agreed to form a fact-finding committee in the city, Shammari added.

Kurds want Kirkuk included in the autonomous Kurdistan region. (dpa)