Freguesia, usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau. In the past, was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The parroquia in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a freguesia. The average land area of a Portuguese parish is about 29.83 km2 (11.52 sq mi) and an average population of about 3,386 people. The largest parish by area is Alcácer do Sal e Santa Susana, with a land area of 888.35 km2 (342.99 sq mi), and the smallest parish by area is São Bartolomeu (Borba), with a land area of 0.208 km2 (0.080 sq mi). The most populous parish is Algueirão - Mem Martins, with a population of 68,649 people and the least populous is Mosteiro, with a population of just nineteen people.
The president of Portugal, officially the president of the Portuguese Republic, is the head of state and highest office of Portugal.
António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes is a Portuguese general and politician who was the 16th president of Portugal from 1976 to 1986.
Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues is a Portuguese politician and economist who had been President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2015 until 29 March 2022, in the 13th (2015–2019) and 14th Legislatures (2019–2022). He was Minister for Social Security, and later Minister for Public Works, in the governments of António Guterres.
Constituent Assembly elections were carried out in Portugal on 25 April 1975, exactly one year after the Carnation Revolution. The election elected all 250 members of the Portuguese Constituent Assembly.
The Assembly of the Republic is the unicameral legislative body of the Republic of Mozambique established in 1977.
Jaime José de Matos da Gama is a Portuguese former politician. In the Portuguese government, he served as Minister of Internal Administration in 1978, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1985 and from 1995 to 2002, and Minister of National Defence in 1999. From 2005 to 2011 he was President of the Assembly of the Republic.
Carlos Galvão de Melo was a Portuguese military officer from the Portuguese Air Force.
The two Autonomous Regions of Portugal from 1999 are the Azores and Madeira. Together with Continental Portugal, they form the Portuguese Republic.
João Bosco Soares Mota Amaral is a Portuguese politician. He served as President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal from 2002 to 2005 and President of the Autonomous Regional Government of the Azores from 1976 to 1995.
António Moreira Barbosa de Melo, GColL was a Portuguese lawyer, politician, and parliamentarian on several occasions.
João Nuno de Lacerda Teixeira de Melo is a Portuguese lawyer, conservative politician who is serving as Minister of National Defence, also being a member of the Assembly of the Republic, elected by Porto constituency. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing the Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party (CDS-PP), of which he is president.
Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste is an administrative division of Portugal, located on the country's western central coast. The population in 2011 was 362,540, in an area of 2,220.16 square kilometres (857.21 sq mi). Caldas da Rainha serves as the seat of Oeste.
Augusto Ernesto dos Santos Silva is a Portuguese sociologist, university professor, and politician who served as the President of the Assembly of the Republic between 2022 and 2024, in the 15th Legislature. From November 2015 to March 2022, he was the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the XXI and XXII Constitutional Governments led by Prime Minister António Costa.
The Medal of Merit of the Autonomous Region of Madeira is the highest honour given by the autonomous region. The medal is awarded by the Legislative Assembly of Madeira to 'natural or legal entities, public or private, national or foreign, living or posthumously, who have rendered outstanding services to the Region or who, for any other reason, the Region understands that must be distinguish ”.
Luís Maria Kalidás da Costa Barreto GOL was a Portuguese accountant and unionist. Barreto was one of the founders of Portuguese trades union confederation, the CGTP, some five decades earlier, and died on 30 October 2020 in Castanheira de Pera, fourteen days after his 88th birthday.
Júlio Francisco Miranda Calha was a Portuguese Socialist Party politician. He served in the Assembly of the Republic from the Constituent Assembly in 1975 until the end of the 13th legislature in 2019.
António Jorge Oliveira Aires Rodrigues is a Portuguese militant worker and politician born in Alfarelos on 21 August 1945.
Joaquim Jorge de Pinho Campinos, was a Portuguese law professor and politician.
Outside Europe is one of the 22 multi-member constituencies of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. The constituency was established in 1976 when the Assembly of the Republic was established by the constitution following the restoration of democracy. The constituency currently elects two of the 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2024 legislative election it had 609,436 registered electors.
