Government of the Arab Union

The Government of the Union (Arabic: حكومة الاتحاد ḥukūmat al-ittiḥād) is the official constitutional name for the federal government of the Arab Union. It consists of three branches: the Arab Congress, the legislative branch, a bicameral assembly; the Council of Ministers, the executive branch, which oversees multiple ministries and executive state committees; and the Supreme Court of the Arab Union, the highest level of the judicial branch of government and only federal court, subordinate levels of which exist entirely at the republican level.

The 20 republics of the Arab Union each have their own respective republican level of government, also consisting of three branches. The Constitution of the Arab Union provides for the delineation of the differing jurisdictions of the two levels of government; for example, criminal law is set exclusively by the federal legislative branch, but the republican level of executive government is responsible for the majority of actual law enforcement; similarly, republican judiciaries hear the vast majority of actual criminal trials, the Supreme Court of the Arab Union hearing only cases effecting two or more republics as well as appeals of republican supreme court verdicts.