Republican congress

A republican congress (Arabic: المؤتمر الجمهوري al-mu’tamr al-jamhūrī) is, according to the 1999 constitution, the unicameral legislature and highest institution of state power in a member republic of the Arab Union. Each Republican Congress is elected triennially by the citizens of its respective republic, and is itself responsible for electing the republican executive council, the executive government of a republic. The federal counterpart is the bicameral Arab Congress.

The term "republican congress" is a constitutional term, and is not actually used in the official names of any congress. Each republican congress is named after its respective republic; for example, the republican congress of the Egyptian Arab Republic is the Egyptian Arab Congress. "Republican congress" as a term is most commonly used when referring to more than one congress, or 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 Egyptian executive" would sound better as "the Egyptian Arab Congress cannot see eye to eye with the Egyptian executive."

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