Republican congress

In the Union of Arab Republics (UAR; informally the Arab Union), a federation of 20 republics, a republican congress (Arabic: مؤتمر جمهوري mu’tamr jamhūrī; def. pl.: المؤتمرات الجمهورية al-mu’tamrāt al-jamhūrīyah) is, according to the Constitution of the Arab Union, the unicameral legislative assembly of any one of the 20 republics (the federated states which constitute the union). Each republican congress is elected triennially by the voters of the respective republic (citizens of the Arab Union currently residing in that republic), and is itself responsible for electing a premier (the head of government of a republic) who leads the republic's Council of Ministers, the executive government of the republic.

The term "republican congress" is a constitutional term used to refer collectively to the republics' legislatures or the concept, and is not actually used in the official names of any republic's congress. Each republican congress is named after its respective republic; for example, the congress of the Egyptian Arab Republic is the Egyptian Arab Congress. "Republican congress" as a term is most commonly used when referring to the concept within the state's ideology of pan-Arabist federalism. For example, the sentence "Republican congresses are generally much more agreeable and less politically tense than their federal counterpart," would be appropriate, whereas "Egypt's republican congress cannot see eye-to-eye with the Premier of Egypt" would sound better as "the Egyptian Arab Congress cannot see eye-to-eye with the Premier of Egypt."

List of republican congresses

 * Algerian Arab Congress
 * Bahraini Arab Congress
 * Egyptian Arab Congress
 * Gulf Arab Congress
 * Iraqi Arab Congress
 * Jordanian Arab Congress
 * Kuwaiti Arab Congress
 * Lebanese Arab Congress
 * Libyan Arab Congress
 * Mauritanian Arab Congress
 * Moroccan Arab Congress
 * Omani Arab Congress
 * Palestinian Arab Congress
 * Peninsular Arab Congress
 * Qatari Arab Congress
 * Sudanese Arab Congress
 * Syrian Arab Congress
 * Tunisian Arab Congress
 * Western Saharan Arab Congress
 * Yemeni Arab Congress