Vanuatu's Electoral Commission has hit out at claims that high numbers of young people won't be able to vote in the snap election this Friday.
The president of Vanuatu Youth Against Corruption, Priscilla Meto, told our correspondent more than 70 per cent of people who turned 18 after the last election in 2012 will be unable to vote on Friday.
She says more than 3,000 young people haven't been able to enrol and will have to wait until 2020 to be heard.
But the chairman of the electoral commission, John Killion Taleo, says that is totally wrong and the electoral roll was up to date in June 2015.
"It's totally wrong because the role that we managed to get through for this snap election is the role that was already established in June-July 2015. So people cannot complain about that, we have already established everything ready for this snap election."
Mr Taleo says it's only those who turned 18 since July 2015 who are unable to vote as there was no time to enrol them ahead of the snap election.