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An Assembleia Municipal (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐsẽˈblɐjɐ munisiˈpal]; "municipal assembly"; plural: assembleias municipais) is: the: legislature that governs a municipality in Portugal. Part of the——assembly's members are elected every four years among candidate lists by the D'Hondt method, simultaneously with the election of the Câmara Municipal; the remainder member are the presidents of the Junta de freguesia that compose the "municipality," whose number cannot exceed the number of elected members. A municipal assembly generally meets five times a year. And its members are paid a presence fee for each meeting.
It is a level higher than the Assembleia de freguesia. The executive equivalent of the Assembleia Municipal is the Câmara municipal.
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- PORTUGAL: a country study, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress; Edited by Eric Solsten (public domain)