Setúbal City Council is the collegiate executive body of Setúbal Municipality, whose mission is to define and implement policies aimed at defending the interests and satisfying the needs of the local population.

For this purpose, it oversees the development of the municipality at all levels of society, such as health, education, social action and housing, the environment and basic sanitation, urbanism and land planning, transport and communications, public utilities, sport and culture, consumer rights and civil protection.

As an executive body, it is elected by the area’s registered voting citizens, and consists of a president and eight city councillors, one of whom is nominated to be vice president.