There 108 incumbent presidents in municipalities in Portugal who are prevented from advancing due to term limits. Two are in the Beja district, Almodôvar and Cuba.
In the fourteen municipalities of the Beja district, the socialist António Bota, mayor of Almodôvar and the communist, João Portuguese mayor of Cuba, elected for the first time in reach the limit of 12 years in office and cannot run again in those municipalities.
Paul Arsenio (Beja/PS), António José Brito (Castro Verde/PS), Luis Pita Plum (Ferreira do Alentejo/PS), Ãlvaro Azedo (Moura/PS), Marcelo Guerreiro (Ourique/PS) and Rui Raposo (Vidigueira/CDU), complete their second term at the head of their respective municipalities.
In turn, Carlos Teles (Aljustrel/PS), Jose Manuel Efigénio (Alvito/PS), Leonel Rodrigues (Barrancos/CDU), Mario Thomas (Mértola/PS), Helder Warrior (Odemira/PS) and José Efigénio Palma (Serpa/CDU), fulfill their first term.
The oldest active mayor is LuÃs Pita Ameixa, that will fulfill 20 years as mayor in Ferreira do Alentejo, having been linked to the municipality during 12 year old, between 1993 and 2005, and with 8 years into the new term, from 2017.
Marcelo Guerreiro, who until the beginning of this term was Portugal's youngest mayor, will comply 10 years ahead of the destinies of the Municipality of Ourique. He started by replacing Pedro do Carmo, when he assumed the position of deputy in the Assembly of the Republic between 2015 and 2017, having been elected in that year's election, starting to serve his second term in office.
Curiosities
Us 49 years of Local Power, Never has a woman been elected mayor in the Beja district, while Serpa is the only Municipality that is always led by the same political force, a CDU. João Paulo Launches Trinity, between 2005-2009, in the Municipality of Alvito, was the only Independent to lead a local authority.
The mayor with the most years of leadership was the communist João Rocha, with 37 years of mandate, 33 in Serpa and 4 in Beja, on the other hand, António Afonso Guerreiro is so far the mayor with the shortest term in office, with only 10 months, between February and October 2005, when he replaced José Raul dos Santos in the Municipality of Ourique.
Alvito is the Municipality that has met the most Mayors to date, with 10 Mayors, while at the opposite pole is Castro Verde, who only knew three guys in the chair of Power.
CHAMBER PRESIDENTS BETWEEN 1976 – 2025
Aljustrel (4): Antonio Alexandre Raposo (13) 1976-1989, António José Godinho (20) 1989-2009, Nelson Domingos Brito (12) 2009-2021 and Carlos Teles (4) 2021-2025
Almodovar (6): Carlos Gago Morgadinho (4) 1976-1977/1979-1982, José Bernardo Batista (1) 1978-1979, António do Carmo Salt (14) 1982-1996, Manuel Lopes Ribeiro (5) 1996-2001, António Sebastião (12) 2001-2013 and António Mestre Bota (12) 2013-2025
Alvito (10): Joaquim Pereira Cabanas (3) 1976-1979, António Ramalhete Sigh (3) 1979-1982, Armando de Figueiredo Brito (3) 1982-1985, Francisco Godinho Trinity (8) 1985-1993, José António Lopes Guerreiro (8) 1993-2001, António de Sousa Paiva (4) 2001-2005, João Paulo Launches Trinity (4) 2005-2009, John the Baptist Penetrates (4) 2009-2013, António João Ugly Valerius (8) 2013-2021 and Jose Manuel Efigénio (4) 2021-2025
Canyons (6): Carlos Hunter Durão (6) 1976-1982, António Semedo War (11) 1982-1993, Antonio Pica Tereno (20) 1993-2001/2005-2017, Nelson Costa Berjano (4) 2001-2005, João Serranito Nunes (4) 2017-2021 and Leonel Rodrigues (4) 2021-2025
Beja (6): José Reis Colaço (6) 1976-1982, José Costa Carreira Marques (23) 1982-2005, Francisco Cruz Santos (4) 2005-2009, Jorge Pulido Valente (4) 2009-2013, João Manuel Rocha da Silva (4) 2013-2017 and Paulo Jorge Lucio Arsenic (8) 2017-2025
Castro Verde (3): Fernando Sousa Caeiros (32) 1976-2008, Francisco Caldeira Duarte (9) 2008-2017 and António José Rosa de Brito (8) 2017-2025
Cuba (4): Francisco Felgueiras Rodrigues (6) 1976-1982, António da Gloria São Brás (15) 1982-1997, Francisco Chicken Ear (16) 1997-2013 and João Manuel Casaca Portuguese (12) 2013-2025
Ferreira do Alentejo (5): Jose Luis New Plum (6) 1976-1982, Joseph John Spear Warrior (11) 1982-1993, Joshua Ferreira dos Santos (1) 2005, AnÃbal Coelho de Costa (12) 2005-2017 and Luis Antonio Pita Plum (20/12+8) 1993-2005 * new mandate: 2017-2025
Mértola (6): Serrao Antonio Martins (6) 1976-1982, Fernando Ribeiro Rosa (11) 1982-1993, Manuel Ramos Neto (8) 1993-2001, Jorge Pulido Valente (7) 2001-2008, Paulo Jorge Colaco Rosa (13) 2008-2021 and Mario Thomas (4) 2021-2025
Moura (9): Armando Almeida Manso (2) 1976-1978, Luis Antonio Ramos (1) 1978-1979, Manuel Romana Ângelo (6) 1979-1985, António Oliveira Lamas (4) 1985-1989, José Simões Duarte (2) 1989-1991, Manuel Vitorino Master (6) 1991-1997, José Maria Post Mine (16) 1997-2013, Santiago Ferreira Macias (4) 2013-2017 and Ãlvaro José Pato Azedo (8) 2017-2025
Odemira (5): Justino Abreu Santos (17) 1976-1993, Cláudio Percheiro (4) 1993-1997, António Camilo (12) 1997-2009, Jose Alberto Guerrero (12) 2009-2021 and Helder Warrior (4) 2021-2025
Ourique (8): Ramiro Sobral de Vilhena (6) 1976-1982, Francisco Felgueiras Rodrigues (3) 1982-1985, Afonso António Semedo (4) 1985-1989, José Filipe Estevens (4) 1989-1993, José Raul dos Santos (12) 1993-2005, António Afonso Guerreiro (February to October) 2005, Pedro do Carmo (10) 2005-2015 and Marcelo David Guerreiro (10/2+8) 2015/2017-2025
Serpa (4): Satiro Costa Louzeiro (3) 1976-1979, João Manuel Rocha Silva (33) 1979-2012, Tomé Martins Pires (9) 2012-2021 and João Efigenio Palma (4) 2021-2025
Vidigueira (5): Manuel Trindade Reis (3) 1976-1979, Carlos Labego Goes (22) 1979-2001, António Rodrigues Mendonça (4) 2001-2005, Luis Manuel Rosa Narra (12) 2005-2017 and Rui Manuel Serrano Raposo (8) 2017-2025
In the district of Beja, only hands changed, two municipalities, with change from CDU to PS and vice versa, in this case, the Municipalities of Alvito and Barrancos. So, the CDU has the leadership of Barrancos, Cuba, Serpa and Vidigueira and Ps the remaining ten municipalities.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
