Assembly of the Republic: MPs and attendance · VII Legislature

PCP: 12
PEV: 2
PS: 105
PSD: 77
CDS-PP: 14
Indep: 2

Plenary sitting of 1 October 1999 · official page of the sitting · raw data

Each seat in the is an MP, with the and attendance recorded by the Assembly of the Republic at the chosen sitting. Hover over (or tap) a seat to see who it is; click (or tap again) to open the MP’s page.

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Who represents me?

The MPs for each of the 22 constituencies

Choose your to see the MPs it elected. The number in each square is the number of MPs in office elected for that constituency. Each MP represents the whole country, not just their constituency.

Who was absent at the last plenary sitting?

1 October 1999: 22 justified absences, 23 unjustified, none not yet classified

167of 212 MPs present in the chamber

23Unjustified absences
0Not yet classified
22Justified absences
0On Assembly business

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The Assembly recorded an absence from the but does not say whether it was justified.

Nobody.

· 22

At the of 1 October 1999, 167 of the 212 MPs were present in the chamber. Absences: 22 and 23 . (source)

At the of 1 October 1999, as recorded by the Assembly. The three lists are always kept apart: an absence is not an unjustified absence. official page of the sitting

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How many MPs were absent, by party?

6 groups, all on the same scale

Across the 406 of read so far, the Assembly made 91,526 records (one per MP per sitting). Absences: 8,581 and 542 . (source)

All of the read so far. For each group, the share of each category in the total seat-sittings (one MP at one sitting), on the same 0–100% scale. Groups follow the political spectrum, not the numbers.

Present

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See the counts by group

Group	MPs	Seat-sittings	Present	Justified	Unjustified
PCP	17	5200	4528	650	22
PEV	3	812	730	78	4
PS	182	44642	40697	3779	166
PSD	127	34737	31227	3209	301
CDS-PP	30	5987	5075	864	48
Indep	2	148	146	1	1

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Debates with the prime minister

none read yet

Every two weeks, the prime minister comes to the to answer MPs’ questions. The two formats alternate: in one, the prime minister opens with a statement on general policy; in the other, there are only questions. Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 224-A

No debate read for this legislature yet. The Diário is read a little at a time (10 issues a day).

Who are the MPs of each party?

359 names in 6 groups

By group (the most recent one) and by name. There are more names than the 230 seats because of .

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Glossary

15 terms explained, with the official rule

The parliamentary terms used on this page, explained, with the official rule behind each one.

Chamber: The half-moon room where MPs meet. The Assembly of the Republic has 230 seats. Here each dot is an MP, and the groups run from left to right in the order of the political spectrum. Source: Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 13.º; Constitution, art. 148.º
Legislature: The term of an elected Parliament: four legislative sessions (about four years), or less when the Assembly is dissolved and there is an early election. Each has a Roman numeral; the current one is the XVII. Source: Constitution, art. 171.º
Legislative session: One year of parliamentary work. It starts on 15 September. Source: Constitution, art. 174.º
Constituency: The area the MP was elected for. There are 22: the 18 mainland districts, the Azores, Madeira and two for Portuguese voters abroad (Europe and Outside Europe). Every MP represents the whole country, not only their constituency. Source: Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 12.º; Constitution, art. 152.º, n.º 2
Parliamentary group: The MPs elected for the same party or coalition, who work together in Parliament. Source: Constitution, art. 180.º; Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 6.º
Plenary sitting: The meeting of all MPs in the chamber, where laws are debated and voted on. The Assembly publishes who attended and who was absent at each one, with the justification when there is one. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 56.º
Present at other parliamentary work: The MP was not in the chamber because they were doing other Assembly work, for example in a committee or a group meeting. It does not count as an absence. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 53.º
Parliamentary mission: The MP was representing the Assembly elsewhere, for example in a delegation abroad. The Assembly records it separately, as an absence on mission, not as a missed sitting. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 56.º, n.º 3
Justified absence: The MP was absent for a reason the law accepts: illness, marriage, maternity or paternity, bereavement, force majeure, parliamentary mission or work, or political or party work. The President of the Assembly decides whether the justification is accepted. Source: Statute of MPs, art. 8.º, n.º 2; Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 18.º, n.º 1, al. a)
Unjustified absence: The MP was absent without an accepted reason. Each one is deducted from the salary (1/20 for the first three, 1/10 after that), and missing four plenary sittings in a legislative session without a justified reason leads to the loss of the seat. Source: Statute of MPs, art. 23.º, n.º 1; Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 3.º, n.º 1, al. b)
Not yet classified: The Assembly recorded the absence with a code that does not say whether it is justified, for example «QV» (absent at the voting quorum) while the justification is pending. Veramundi does not count it as an unjustified absence. Source: Statute of MPs, art. 24.º; Veramundi, how we read the Assembly data
Absent at the voting quorum: When there are not enough MPs in the chamber to vote, the President of the Assembly calls them in and records who is missing. The Assembly marks it «QV» and, once justified, «QVJ». Source: Statute of MPs, art. 24.º
Assembly code: The abbreviation the Assembly puts on each record. PR: present. PNO: present at another body. ME and MP: parliamentary mission. FJ, QVJ and FAJ: justified absence. FI: unjustified absence. QV and FA: not yet classified. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 56.º; Veramundi, how we read the Assembly data
Debate with the prime minister: Every two weeks the prime minister comes to the plenary to answer MPs’ questions. The formats alternate: with an opening statement by the prime minister (point a, «general policy») or questions only (point b). Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 224.º-A
Replacement: When an MP leaves or suspends their seat (for example, to join the Government), the seat goes to the next candidate on the same list. That is why a legislature has more names than its 230 seats. Source: Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 18.º; Statute of MPs, art. 4.º

How to read this

The rules and the source of the figures

The figures are those the Assembly of the Republic publishes as open data, with no corrections of ours.
Justified and unjustified absences are always shown apart. A code the Assembly has not classified yet (for example «», awaiting a decision) stays «», never an unjustified absence.
«» and «» are absences from the plenary on Assembly business, as the Assembly records them.
The Assembly does not publish committee attendance: MP pages show committee membership only.
There are no lists of who misses the most or the least, and no adjectives.

Source

Assembly of the Republic, open data (free reuse with attribution). Last read: 9 November 2026. parlamento.pt

First time here? Parliament in 5 steps

What the Assembly of the Republic is. It is Portugal’s Parliament. It makes laws, approves the State Budget and scrutinises what the Government does. It represents all Portuguese citizens. Source: Constitution, art. 147.º; Constitution, art. 161.º; Constitution, art. 162.º
Who sits there. There are 230 MPs, elected on party lists in 22 . Each election opens a new , of four years at most. When an MP leaves, the next person on the same list takes the seat (). Source: Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 13.º; Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 12.º; Constitution, art. 171.º
How they are organised. The MPs elected for the same party form a . In the on this page, each colour is a group, from left to right. Source: Constitution, art. 180.º
Where they work. All together at the , where laws are debated and voted on, and in committees, smaller groups that study each subject before it goes to a vote. Every two weeks the prime minister comes to the plenary to answer MPs (). Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 35.º; Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 224.º-A
How to read attendance. At each plenary sitting the Assembly records every MP: present in the chamber, on Assembly business elsewhere ( or , which are not absences), , or a code . Veramundi shows these records as the Assembly publishes them, without ranking who is absent more or less. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 56.º; Statute of MPs, art. 8.º

Assembly of the Republic: MPs and attendance · VII Legislature

Who represents me?

Who was absent at the last plenary sitting?

Unjustified absencesi · 23

Not yet classifiedi · 0

Justified absencesi · 22

How many MPs were absent, by party?

Debates with the prime minister

Who are the MPs of each party?

Glossary

How to read this

Source

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