Executive Committee

Executive body

It consists of a first secretary and four metropolitan secretaries.

The list of candidates for membership of the Metropolitan Executive Committee is approved by the Metropolitan Council and put to the vote in the municipal assemblies of the municipalities that make up the metropolitan area.

Composition

The executive committee was sworn in by the president of the Lisbon Metropolitan Council, Carlos Moedas, on January 22, 2026, at the AML headquarters. 

Its composition is as follows: 

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Priority Areas and Strategic Objectives (2025–2029 Term)

There are eight priority areas (institutional strengthening, housing, mobility, social cohesion, environment and spatial planning, innovation, security and civil protection, and funds and investment) and 58 strategic objectives for the current term.

The vision guiding these proposals is based on three fundamental principles: territorial and social cohesion, metropolitan scale, and public capacity.

The strategic objectives aim to consolidate a stronger metropolitan governance system that is closer to citizens and more focused on concrete results, and to set a course that will shape the development of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area not only during this four-year term, but also in the decades to come.

You can view the full document here.

Meetings

The Metropolitan Executive Committee holds regular meetings every two weeks. You can view the meeting schedule for 2026 here.

Skills

A summary of the main competencies of the Metropolitan Executive Committee can be read in article 76 of Annex I to Law no. 75/2013, of September 12th

• To submit to the metropolitan council the realization of metropolitan assignments.

• Propose investment and development plans, programs and projects of metropolitan interest to the government.

• To express its opinion and collaborate in plans, projects and programs of metropolitan interest promoted by central government entities.

• Ensuring coordination between municipalities and central government services.

• Collaborate with the central and municipal civil protection services in the fulfillment of emergency plans and protection, rescue and assistance operations in the imminence or occurrence of a serious accident or disaster.

• Participating in the management of regional development programs and submitting applications for funding through programs, projects and other initiatives.

• Execute the plan and budget options approved by the metropolitan council.

• To present the metropolitan council with proposals for harmonization in the field of municipal tax powers;

• Approving projects, tendering programs, specifications and the awarding of contracts and the acquisition of goods and services, for which it is responsible for authorizing expenditure.

• Proposing to the metropolitan council the AML representative on the general assembly of local companies and other entities, bodies or commissions.

• Submitting accountability documents to the metropolitan council.

• Acquiring and leasing goods and services and carrying out contract work.

• Managing the metropolitan technical and administrative support services.

• Participate in advisory and management bodies of central administration entities;

• Proposing a declaration of public utility for the purposes of expropriation;

• Send the AML's accounts to the Court of Auditors and inform the municipal assemblies of their municipalities.

• Develop projects to train the municipalities' human resources.

• Develop projects to support municipal management.

• Ensuring compliance with the metropolitan council's resolutions.

• Discuss and prepare with government departments and city councils contracts for the delegation of powers, under the terms of this law, after authorization from the metropolitan council.

• Submitting proposals for the resolution and revocation of inter-administrative contracts to the metropolitan council.

• Exercising its legal powers, including those that the state may transfer to the AML as part of decentralization.

The metropolitan executive committee may delegate its powers to the first secretary, with the option of sub-delegation to the metropolitan secretaries.

It is the responsibility of the first secretary, who may sub-delegate to the metropolitan secretaries, to sign contracts on behalf of the AML.

The metropolitan executive committee is also responsible for appearing before municipal assemblies.

Distribution of duties and subdelegation of authority

Allocation of duties among the current members of the Lisbon Metropolitan Executive Committee, in accordance with Order No . 13/PSM/2026, and subdelegation of the first secretary’s powers to the metropolitan secretaries of the executive committee, in accordance with Order No. 14/PSM/2026.

The orders were also published in the Official Gazette on February 13, 2026: (DR – Order 1917/2026) and (DR – Order 1916/2026).

Transparency Organization

For the purposes of Article 17(4) of Law no. 52/2019 of July 31, we hereby inform you that the single declarations of income, assets and interests are available on the Transparency Authority's website.

In compliance with the provisions of Article 17(2) and (3) of the aforementioned Law, the fields relating to income and assets contained in the declaration, as well as the elements of the declaration referred to in Article 13(2)(f) of the aforementioned Law, may be consulted, without the option of reproduction, upon reasoned request with the identification of the applicant, which is registered with the Transparency Authority:

a) In person, at the entity;
b) Remotely, by granting the applicant a time-limited digital access credential to consult the declaration requested.

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