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Modern Rome's executive branch's head would be the mayor of Rome. If you are asking about the ancient Romans, well, they did not have branches of government as we do. For some unfathomable reason people try to force our modern aspects of government upon the ancients. The ancient Roman government did not work the way modern ones do. Their senate was an advisory body, not an exclusively elected one. (Some senators were elected in a way, others were appointed) The elected officials were each responsible for particular duties within their area of responsibility. They had a system of checks and balances where an official of a higher office could override a decision made by an official holding a lower office. A tribune could override anybody except a dictator. That is about the closest they came to a modern government. As far as a comparison with a modern executive branch of government, you could loosely say the consuls, because they were the heads of state, were the heads of the "executive branch".

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