{"id":1381,"date":"2024-09-11T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vf-advogados.pt\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:02:38","slug":"bruno-magalhaes-helps-to-understand-the-role-and-rights-of-neighborhood-associations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vf-advogados.pt\/en\/media\/bruno-magalhaes-helps-to-understand-the-role-and-rights-of-neighborhood-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Magalh\u00e3es helps to understand the role and rights of neighborhood associations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a report by Jornal de Not\u00edcias<\/a><\/em>, VFA lawyer Bruno Magalh\u00e3es<\/a> was interviewed to provide information about neighborhood associations, a form of community organization that, while not new, is experiencing significant growth in Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“One-third of the currently active neighborhood groups were created after 2010,”<\/em> highlights the daily publication. “Dialogue with political authorities and the promotion of community life are the main tasks of these groups that exist across the country.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruno Magalh\u00e3es agrees. The function of these associations is to be “an active and legitimate voice to demand the improvement of social, cultural, urban, transportation, leisure areas, accessibility conditions, among others,”<\/em> mentions the lawyer, as quoted in the article written by journalist Sara Sofia Gon\u00e7alves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what rights do these types of organizations have? Bruno Magalh\u00e3es responds: “The constitutional regulation of local governance dedicates an exclusive chapter to neighborhood organizations, comprising three articles\u2014without prejudice to other occasional provisions\u2014from which two essential rights emerge: the right to petition local authorities and the right to participate, without voting rights, in the parish council assembly.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full report – in Portuguese – can be read in the PDF document we have made available below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n