On the 50th Anniversary of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic: regionalizing, a constitutional imperative yet to be fulfilled!

The article celebrates the 50 years of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (CRP), highlighting regionalization as a constitutional imperative that remains to be fulfilled. Article 236 of the CRP expressly establishes three categories of local authorities: parishes, municipalities, and, implicitly, regions. The text was published on the Almada online platform, suggesting a focus on local and regional governance issues in Portugal. The central question concerns the need to implement the constitutional mandate for the creation of administrative regions, an objective foreseen in the Constitution but never implemented since 1976.