Assembleia de freguesia

The assembleia de freguesia (parish assembly) is the legislature of a freguesia (civil parish), the local administrative unit LAU 2 of Portugal.

[1] The number of members of each assembly is dependent on the number of registered voters in each freguesia ranging from 7 if there are 1,000 or less registered voters to 19 if there are over 20,000 and an increase of one member per 10,000 registered voters after 30,000.

[2] It is a level lower than the Assembleia Municipal.

The executive equivalent of the Assembleia de freguesia is the Junta de freguesia.

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