Cairo Nearly 600,000 Egyptians working abroad will begin voting Friday in their country's first presidential elections since a popular revolt removed Hosni Mubarak from power in February last year.
The registered voters, out of an estimated 6 million expatriates, will have until May 17 to cast their ballots, according to an official commission overseeing the elections.
Egyptians working in Saudi Arabia top the list of registered voters with 261,000 followed by those in Kuwait with 119,000 and UAE with 61,400, according to official figures
This will be the first time ever for Egyptian expatriates to vote for a president after a court ruling allowed them last year to ballot in the country's post-Mubarak parliamentary polls.
The voters will have to download their balloting cards from a special website set up by the election commission and pick their choices before mailing them or delivering them by hand to Egyptian diplomatic missions around the world.
