* FPI chief says wants Gbagbo freed, longer probe into crisis
* Says insecurity, electoral list will prevent a fair poll
By Tim Cocks
ABIDJAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo's party will boycott legislative elections set for next month, in protest at his continued detention and fears that insecurity will prevent a fair outcome, its party chief said on Wednesday.
Sylvain Miaka Ouretto, a former member of parliament, told Reuters it would be impossible for Gbagbo's Popular Ivorian Front (FPI) to contest the polls unless Gbagbo and other party members were released and a list of other conditions met.
A boycott would bode ill for the process of reconciliation after a civil war triggered by a disputed November presidential poll killed 3,000 people and displaced over a million.
"We're all for elections but not if they're just going to legitimate the ruling powers ... They want to monopolise parliament, to have everyone saying 'yes' to everything. We're not going down that path," Ouretto told Reuters.
Ivory Coast will hold a parliamentary election on Dec. 11 to deliver its first functioning parliament since 2005. A decade of crisis and instability delayed previous polls, effectively rendering the legislature null and void.
The West African country slid into chaos after November's poll. Gbagbo refused to step down, despite losing to Alassane Ouattara, triggering a violent standoff.
The conflict ended when Gbagbo was captured in his residence in Abidjan by French-backed pro-Ouattara forces.
The former leader is being held in the north of the top cocoa grower. Ouattara said last month he would be tried in Ivory Coast for "economic crimes" and may also face justice at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which this month opened an investigation into alleged war crimes during the crisis.
Those aims may fit ill with Ouattara's pledge to seek reconciliation in a still divided country after years of instability.
"Their words are encouraging but unfortunately their acts are not in the same spirit," Ouretto said. "They are chasing Gbagbo supporters out of the country. We want real reconciliation, not this facade."
Ouretto said the party was demanding Gbagbo's release because it saw the judicial process as one-sided. He repeated complaints by Gbagbo's supporters that none of Ouattara's camp has yet been arrested for crimes, despite evidence of them.
He said that any inquiry must go back to long before the election last year to the attempted coup against Gbagbo in September 2002, when rebels seized half the country.
The ICC has indicated that the investigation will only go back to crimes committed in the recent conflict, because of several amnesty laws that had been agreed during the peace process leading up to the November 2010 poll.
"That's hypocrisy," Ouretto said. "During the rebellion of 2002 and 2003, there were atrocities, blood crimes. Senior officers were executed in cold blood."
Further demands included that the electoral commission include some members of Gbagbo's party, not only those of Ouattara's coalition and that names he alleged have been added to the electoral list since the last poll, whose Ivorian nationalities are in dispute, be removed.
Ouretto also said security must be improved before the poll -- something Ouattara has promised to do.
"Insecurity is serious ... men with guns rule life in the villages ... How can we go to elections under these conditions?" he said. "Everyone will be afraid to vote."
There was no immediate comment from Ouattara's side. (Editing by David Lewis)
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