Executive Office of the President (Arab Union)

The Executive Office of the President of the Arab Union (Arabic: المكتب التنفيذي لرئيس الإتِّحاد al-maktab at-tanfīdhī li-ra’īs al-ittiḥād), or informally the Presidential [Executive] Office (المكتب [التنفيذي] الرئاسي al-maktab [at-tanfīdhī] ar-ri’āsī), is the official administrative institution of the President (head of state) of the Arab Union, and the highest executive organ within the state. While the Prime Minister of the Arab Union is head of government and therefore leads the Council of Ministers (the executive cabinet consisting of multiple federal ministries and other executive agencies, the main organ of the federal government), the Executive Office of the President is instead essentially an elaborate advisory council with no unilateral power of its own, except as directed by the President of the Arab Union personally. The Presidential Office consists of the Residential Service (the approximately 200-member civil service staff who support the president's routine activities in various capacities), the Presidential Budget Committee and the Cabinet Liaison Office which are led by the Chief of Staff to the President of the Arab Union, as well as the Presidential Security Service, the Union Security Council and the Office of the Vice President of the Arab Union.