Maldives' electoral watchdog on Saturday said the revised voters list for the upcoming presidential elections would be publicized on July 1.
Elections Commission had received a total 1,778 complaints over the preliminary voters list during a 10 day window which ended on Wednesday.
Commission member and spokesperson Ahmed Akram told AVAS that the commission would consider the complaints and publicize the revised list on July 1.
Voters would get another 10 days to submit complaints before the list would be finalized, Akram added.
As the initial 10 day window closed on Wednesday evening, the primary complaints included names of deceased people and people under the age of eighteen who would ineligible to vote in the elections.
Main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP" was the chief complainant with more than 800 complaints filed on Wednesday.
MDP deputy chairperson Ali Niyaz told local reporters that the party had shared a total 860 complaints as the deadline closed on Wednesday.
According to Niyaz, the list publicized by the Elections Commission contained 711 people under the age of 18 who would ineligible to vote, 108 deceased people while 38 names had been repeated.
"A comprehensive voters list is a right of the people. So its a responsibility of all political parties to ensure that. But its clearly a responsibility of the Elections Commission," Niyaz explained.
The commission meanwhile had announced that the crunch elections would be held on September 23 while it would open the elections for interested candidates from July 15.
Incumbent president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is seeking re-election amid unprecedented political strife in the archipelago.
Former home minister Umar Naseer has also announced his intention to stand for the elections and already launched his campaign as an independent candidate.
The main opposition leaders including former presidents Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed along with Jumhoory Party (JP) leader Gasim Ibrahim and religiously conservative Adhaalath Party (AP) leader Sheikh Imran Abdulla inked pact to form what they called a 'reform alliance'.
With the candidacy of the four leaders - all convicted and serving sentences on questionable charges in serious doubt, the united opposition had announced plans to nominate a single candidate for the upcoming presidential elections.
However, the coalition now seems to have fractured with Nasheed contesting and winning the highly disputed presidential primary held by his party last week.
Elections Commission had said it would not accept the result insisting that Nasheed remains a convicted criminal who is constitutionally ineligible to contest.
Nasheed however, remains hopeful that the government would yield to international pressure and allow him to stand for the elections which now appears to have created massive divisions within his own party.
The commission itself has been dogged by both local and international censure as it fends off allegations of bias against the opposition.
