CAIRO: Egyptian courts will meet on Tuesday to examine proposed legislation that would allow Egyptian nationals living abroad to vote in national elections. The session was originally scheduled for Sunday, but was postponed for two days in order to allow for testimonies to be heard. If passed, Egypt will set up voting centers at embassies abroad to allow expat nationals to vote for parliamentary elections. Egyptians living abroad could change the face of Egyptian elections, as their numbers near an estimated 8 million people. The government is expected to allow Egyptian expatriates to vote in upcoming presidential elections, anticipated for sometime next year. They may also grant Egyptian expatriates the right to vote in the country's referendum votes, such as the constitutional referendum expected to take place next year. Egyptian expatriates recently launched a digital “Right to Vote” campaign to advocate for their rights as Egyptian nationals. Egypt's parliamentary elections are scheduled to begin on November 28, and will take place in several phases, with upper house elections ending on March 24, 2012. The new parliament will adjourn on March 17, 2012. On Sunday, Tunisians living in Cairo were able to vote in the country's first general elections since the revolution that toppled former leader Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali last January. BM