Zamboanga City Council

The council is responsible for creating laws and ordinances under Zamboanga City's jurisdiction.

The mayor can veto proposed bills, but the council can override it with a two-thirds supermajority.

During the Marcos regime, the city council was renamed to Sangguniang Panglungsod and its membership shuffled.

After Marcos was deposed, a new Local Government Code was enacted in 1991 and the mayor was restored to the executive branch.

The composition of the Council changed when the representation of the youth was left unfilled during the 2013 Sangguniang Kabataan elections by virtue of Republic Act No.

10362,[1] postponing the SK elections from 2013 to 2015 to pave way for reforms in the considered corrupt agency in the government.

In 2013, the youth sector in the city has no representative to the Council effectively decreasing its membership from 18 to 17.

Sangguniang Panglungsod Building, the seat of the legislative power of the Zamboanga City Government, located along Roseller T. Lim Boulevard.