suffrage with or without political parties), but also represented by the presidents of the juntas de freguesia (civil parish council presidents).

Though a unitary state, the Portuguese model governance has undergone periods of centralized and decentralized tendencies:

:"One of the interesting and innovative aspects of the 1976 Constitution, occurs in the consideration of decentralized democracy, particularly in the ambient of territorial decentralization...The Portuguese State continues to be unitary (Article 6, Paragraph 1),

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