Kuala Lumpur - The Malaysian opposition leader, Mr Lim Kit Siang, yesterday called on 680,000 new voters to protest against their exclusion from general elections on November 29th, saying they had been denied "their most precious democratic right".
The new batch of voters - who represent about 7 per cent of the electorate - registered earlier this year but will not become eligible to cast ballots until early 2000. The four Opposition parties say many of the new voters are young and oppose the Prime Minister, Mr Mahathir Mohamad, who has been in power since 1981.