The Brazilian câmaras municipais or câmaras de vereadores have their origin in the municipal administration model inherited from Portugal. However, while the Portuguese câmaras evolved towards becoming executive bodies, in Brazil they evolved towards becoming the legislative bodies of the municipalities, especially after the creation of the prefeituras municipais (municipal prefectures) in the 1930s. In Brazil, the executive municipal power is now vested in the prefeituras municipais, each headed by the prefeito (mayor).
Each câmara is composed of a number of elected vereadores.
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Its members (vereadores, aldermen) are elected by the Hondt method, serve year-round and are paid. The president of a Municipal Chamber is the head of the most-voted list. The Câmara Municipal has an odd number of aldermen (from five to thirteen), determined by the number of registered voters within the municipality, with the exceptions of Lisbon (fixed at 17 aldermen) and Porto (15 aldermen).
The term can also refer to the building where the Municipal Chamber offices are located, i.e., the City Hall, although it is more properly termed Paços do Concelho (literally, the "Palace of the Concelho").
câmara, municipal, câmara, municipal, portuguese, pronunciation, ˈkɐmɐɾɐ, munisiˈpal, meaning, literally, municipal, chamber, often, referred, câmara, vereadores, simply, câmara, type, municipal, governing, body, existing, several, countries, community, portug. A camara municipal Portuguese pronunciation ˈkɐmɐɾɐ munisiˈpal meaning literally municipal chamber and often referred as camara de vereadores or simply as camara is a type of municipal governing body existing in several countries of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries Building of the Camara Municipal of Porto Building of the Camara Municipal of Lisbon Building of the Camara Municipal of Rio de Janeiro In Portugal Cape Verde Guinea Bissau and Timor Leste a camara municipal is the executive body of a municipality In Brazil it is the legislature of a municipality Sao Tome and Principe has similar camaras distritais district chambers which are the executive bodies of the districts municipalities In all these countries the members of a camara are known as vereadores aldermen Contents 1 Brazil 2 Portugal 3 See also 4 ReferencesBrazil editThe Brazilian camaras municipais or camaras de vereadores have their origin in the municipal administration model inherited from Portugal However while the Portuguese camaras evolved towards becoming executive bodies in Brazil they evolved towards becoming the legislative bodies of the municipalities especially after the creation of the prefeituras municipais municipal prefectures in the 1930s In Brazil the executive municipal power is now vested in the prefeituras municipais each headed by the prefeito mayor Each camara is composed of a number of elected vereadores Portugal editIts members vereadores aldermen are elected by the Hondt method serve year round and are paid The president of a Municipal Chamber is the head of the most voted list The Camara Municipal has an odd number of aldermen from five to thirteen determined by the number of registered voters within the municipality with the exceptions of Lisbon fixed at 17 aldermen and Porto 15 aldermen The term can also refer to the building where the Municipal Chamber offices are located i e the City Hall although it is more properly termed Pacos do Concelho literally the Palace of the Concelho A Camara municipal is an executive body of a municipal a level higher than the Junta de freguesia The legislature equivalent of Camara municipal is the Assembleia Municipal See also editAssembleia Municipal Assembleia de freguesia Junta de freguesia List of municipalities of Portugal Portuguese local election 2005References editPORTUGAL a country study Federal Research Division Library of Congress Edited by Eric Solsten public domain nbsp This article about politics in Portugal is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Camara municipal amp oldid 1147672370, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
