The President of the United Arab Republic (رئيس الجمهورية العربية المتحدة Raʾīs al-Jumhūriyyah al-'Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah) is the executive head of state of the United Arab Republic. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of the United Arab Republic following the founding of the union in 1958, the president is also the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, and head of the executive branch of the UAR government.
Under the system created by the 1980, 2003 and 2007 constitutional amendments to the 1971 Constitution, the President is the pre-eminent executive figure, who names the Prime Minister of the UAR as well as appoints the Cabinet per the latter's recommendation, while in reality, is the head of both the state and of the government, aside from being the top foreign policy maker and holding supreme command over the military. During martial law, the President also anoints deans of faculties and majors, and can also enlist or oust people in the private sector.
List of Presidents of the United Arab Republic[]
| No. | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term | Party | Mandate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | ||||||
| 1 | 
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Gamal Abdel Nasser جمال عبد الناصر (1918–1970) |
February 22, 1958 | September 28, 1970 D | National Union (1958–62) Arab Socialist Union (1962–70) |
1958 | |
| 1965 | |||||||
| 2 | 
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Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat محمد أنور السادات (1918–1981) |
September 28, 1970 | October 6, 1981 A | Arab Socialist Union (1970–76) | ||
| 1970 | |||||||
| 1976 | |||||||
| National Democratic Party (1976–81) | |||||||