Palestine Arab Congress

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المؤتمر العربي الفلسطيني
Palestine Arab Congress
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Resolution passed by the 1st Palestine Arab Congress on 10 February 1919
Type
Type Unicameral
Established 27 Jan 1919 (1st Congress)
Leadership
President Omar el-Hilmi
Structure
Seats 233
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Political groups NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE FRONT:
Ba'ath Party (131 seats, gov't)
Communist Party (33 seats)
Democratic Front (9 seats)
Revolutionary Alliance (7 seats)
People's Party (7 seats)
NATIONAL ALLIANCE:
Nationalist Party (21 seats)
National Initiative (6 seats)
Third Way (5 seats)
Palestine Arab Party (3 seats)
Democratic List (3 seats)
INDEPENDENTS (8 seats)
Length of term 3 years
Elections
Last election 1 Sep 2017
Next election On or before 1 Sep 2020
Meeting place
Copenhagen Mall Building, Sheikh Badr, Jerusalem

The Palestine Arab Congress (Arabic: المؤتمر العربي الفلسطيني al-mu’tamr al-‘arabī al-falasṭīnī) is the national unicameral republican legislative assembly of the Palestinian Arab Republic. It is a directly-elected assembly of 233 seats, each representing a single electoral district of roughly equal population (~130,000 in the September 2017 election). The Palestine Arab Congress meets in the Copenhagen Mall Building in Sheikh Badr, Jerusalem.

Elections to the Palestine Arab Congress are held every three years, with every second election coinciding with a presidential election. The Council of Ministers, the executive branch of government, which is led by the Premier, is accountable to the Palestine Arab Congress, which has the power to dissolve the Council of Ministers and force the resignation of the Premier of Palestine by a vote of no confidence.