Arab Communist Party

The Arab Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي العربي al-ḥizb ash-shuyū‘ī al-‘arabī) is the second-largest political party by membership in the Arab Union. It is a member of the National Progressive Front, a coalition of political parties led by the ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which the Communist Party officially supports. It holds the second-most seats in both chambers of the Arab Congress, and also a majority of seats in three member republics' legislatures, where it forms the executive republican government: Tunisia, Yemen and Libya; in all 17 remaining republics, the Communist Party holds the second-highest number of seats in republican congresses, after the Ba'ath Party.