Municipal assembly (Sweden)
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Municipal assembly (Swedish: Kommunfullmäktige) is the name of the elected council governing everyone of the 290 municipalities of Sweden. The term used in the English version of the Swedish Local Government Act (Swedish: Kommunallagen) is Municipal assembly, but Municipal council or even City council is sometimes used as a translation.
Each assembly is elected on a four year term at the same time as the parliamentary elections. The assembly, which normally cannot be dissolved has 31 to 101 members in relation to the population of the municipality.
Kommunfullmäktige was introduced with the municipal reform of in 1971 replacing kommunalfullmäktige (in rural municipalities) and stadsfullmäktige in (city municipalities).
I bilingual Finland kommunfullmäktige is the Swedish term for kunnanvaltuusto with the same meaning.
