A Câmara Municipal (pron. IPA: ['kɐmɐɾɐ munisi'paɫ], literally, Municipal Chamber, is the executive body of a municipality in Portugal. Look up pronunciation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Not to be confused with the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ...

Election

Its members (vereadores, aldermen) are elected, serve year-round and are paid. The president of a Municipal Chamber is the candidate for that body who had received the most votes. Each Municipal Chamber has a council, composed of representatives from a variety of organizations, which serve as a consultative body. The size of these municipal bodies is determined by the number of registered voters within the municipality.

The term can also refer to the building where the Municipal Chamber offices are located, i.e., the City Hall. It has been suggested that Town Hall be merged into this article or section. ...

See also

• Assembleia Municipal
• List of municipalities of Portugal
• Portuguese local election, 2005

An Assembleia Municipal (municipal assembly) governs a concelho (municipality) in Portugal. ... This is a list of the municipalities of Portugal. ... The Portuguese local election of 2005 took place on October 9. ...

References

• PORTUGAL: a country study, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress; Edited by Eric Solsten (public domain)