The Cambodian National Election Committee (NEC) has started to clear up the 2007 voters' list for the general election in 2008, local media reported Thursday.

The clearing-up of the voters' list aimed at checking up the real figure of Cambodian voters in the 2008 election, Khon Koemono, vice president of the NEC's public information unit, was quoted by the Raksmey Kampuchea Daily as saying.

"We have to check voters' list and voters' registration from now to August 2007," he said.

The NEC also would like to appeal all political parties and NGOs to observe the process of the clearing-up of voters in order to have clear and fair figures, he added.

According to a NEC press release about the commune councils election on April 1, only around 70 percent of the over 7 million Cambodian voters went to vote.

Cambodia is expected to hold the next general election on July 27, 2008, it said.

Source: Xinhua