KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - MALAYSIA'S main Islamic opposition party said on Thursday that electoral rolls were riddled with irregularities, including the listing of voters aged up to 128 years.

The fundamentalist Islamic Party (PAS) said it had detected a total of 28 names in two states where voters aged between 106 and 128 years old were on the roll for March 8 general elections.

'PAS will be waiting for these people to show up during the elections, to congratulate them for living up to this ripe age, if at all they exist,' said party official Roslan Shahir.

'Our worry is that if we don't expose these things then other people will appear on behalf of them to vote,' he told a press conference.

PAS, in a loose alliance with two other opposition parties, is hoping to deprive the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition of a two-thirds majority for the first time in history.

Roslan said that in some cases up to 40 voters were registered in the same house address, and called on the Election Commission to immediately investigate these irregularities.

Malaysian activists have criticised electoral authorities ahead of the polls, accusing them of not cleaning up electoral rolls and refusing to abolish postal votes, which it says are manipulated.

The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) last November gathered some 30,000 people for a rare mass rally in the capital to demand electoral reforms. -- AFP