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CURRENT MAYOR

Paulo Batista Santos

The Mayor of Batalha is Paulo Batista Santos. He was born in 1968, in Batalha. He is married with two children.

He has previously worked as a manager and chief financial officer for various private companies in the areas of accounting and administration.

Santos was a consultant at IEFP – Instituto de Emprego e Formação Profissional, Administrator of the municipal company ISERBATALHA, and Secretary of the General Assembly of Sociedade Leiria Polis.

He was also a member of the Portuguese parliament in the IX, X, XI and XII legislatures, and Deputy Secretary of the Bureau of the Assembly of the Republic and Vice-President of the Parliamentary Commissions of Agriculture and Sea and of the Committee on Budget, Finance and Public Administration.

Currently he is the mayor of Batalha, elected in 2013, Vice-President of the Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Leiria and an effective member of the National Council of the Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses.

Furthermore, he is a member of the Portuguese representation in the European Committee of the Regions and chairman of the ENERDURA – Agência Regional de Energia da Alta Estremadura.

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