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AnAssembleia Municipal (European Portuguese pronunciation:[ɐsẽˈblɐjɐmunisiˈpal]; "municipal assembly"; plural:assembleias municipais) is thelegislature that governs amunicipality inPortugal. Part of the assembly's members are elected every four years among candidate lists by theD'Hondt method, simultaneously with the election of theCâmara Municipal; the remainder member are the presidents of theJunta 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 theAssembleia de freguesia.Theexecutive equivalent of the Assembleia Municipal is theCâmara municipal.
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