CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE
interests of the local population, without prejudice to national interests and to the
role of the State.
Article 273
Categories of Local Authorities
1. Local authorities shall be municipalities and settlements.
2. The municipalities shall correspond to the territorial constituency of towns and
cities.
3. The settlements shall correspond to the territorial constituency of
administrative posts.
4. The law may establish other categories of local authorities, which may be
either greater or smaller than the territorial constituencies of municipalities or
settlements.
Article 274
Creation and Dissipation of Local Authorities
The creation and dissipation of local authorities shall be regulated by law, and
changes to the area of a particular local authority shall be preceded by
consultation with its bodies.
Article 275
Executive and Decision Making Bodies
1. The local authorities shall possess and assembly endowed with decisionmaking powers, and an executive body, which shall be accountable to the
assembly, in terms of the law.
2. The Assembly shall be elected through universal, direct, equal and periodic
suffrage and by secret and personal ballot, by the voters living within the
territorial constituency of the local authority, according to the system of
proportional representation.
3. The executive body shall be headed by a President, elected through universal,
direct, equal and periodic suffrage and by secret and personal ballot, by the
voters living with the respective territorial constituency.
4. Candidates for election to offices of the local authorities may be proposed by
political parties, either individually or as coalitions, or by groups of voters, within
the terms of the law.
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