Mayor’s Responsibilities

The Mayor is the executive body of the Capital city and represents it externally; he is the statutory body of the Capital city in terms of the city's proprietary relations, the employment relations of the city's employees, and he is the administrative body in terms of the city's administrative relations.

The Mayor is elected by the residents of the city in direct elections for a term of four years. The term of office of the Mayor ends with the election of a new Mayor and the taking of the oath of office. The Mayor's term of office ends upon expiry, upon resignation from the office, if he or she has been definitively convicted of a deliberate criminal offence, and upon the taking of the oath of office by the new mayor.

The Mayor’s office is a public office; it is not compatible with the office of borough mayor, member of the City Council or Local Council, employee of the city, executive body of a budgetary organisation or a contributory organisation established by the city, chairman of a self-governing region, managerial employee of a state administration body, and with an office pursuant to a special regulation.

The Mayor may suspend the execution of a resolution of the City Council if he or she believes that it contravenes the law or is evidently disadvantageous to the city. The Mayor shall discuss the resolution of the City Council prior to suspending its execution with the City Board. However, he or she shall not be bound by the resolution of the City Board. If the execution of a City Council’s resolution has been suspended, the City Council may uphold the resolution by a three-fifths majority of all its members. If the resolution is not upheld by the City Council within two months of its approval, the resolution shall cease to have effect. The Mayor may not suspend the execution of an upheld resolution.