Solicitor General (Arab Union)

In the Union of Arab Republics (UAR; informally the Arab Union), the office of Solicitor General (Arabic: المحامي العام al-muḥāmī al-ʿām), formally known as Deputy Minister of Justice (نائب وزير العدل nāʾib wazīr al-ʿadl), is the most senior public prosecutor of any one of the union's 20 republics (federated states) or equivalent federal jurisdictions (the Kurdistan Autonomous Region and Nasser City. The position oversees the respective Judicial Office of the governorate (republican government) in question, and is appointed by and immediately subordinate to the Governor. Each Judicial Office acts as a regional branch of the national Ministry of Justice; therefore a solicitor general, while in daily practice answerable to the Governor, ultimately falls under the authority of the Attorney General of the Arab Union, officially the Minister of Justice.