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.

Mayor’s main responsibilities

The Mayor performs, in particular, the following duties:

  • convenes and chairs meetings of the City Council and the City Board and signs their resolutions,
  • signs the regulations of the city,
  • performs the administration of the Capital city,
  • represents the city in relation to state authorities, legal entities and individuals,
  • signs agreements, contracts and other documents which create obligations or rights of the city,
  • decides on all matters of the administration of the city which are not reserved by law or by this Statute to the City Council,
  • makes changes to the budget to the extent determined by the City Council,
  • submits to the City Council a proposal for the election and dismissal of deputy mayors, a proposal for the appointment and dismissal of the chief of the municipal police and the directors of the city’s budgetary organisations and contributory organisations, and appoints and dismisses the City Hall director,
  • determines the salary of, and awards remuneration to, the deputy Mayors, the chief of the municipal police, determines the wage and awards remuneration to the City Hall director,
  • determines the salary or wage and awards remuneration to the directors of budgetary organisations and contributory organisations and the heads of the Capital City's facilities,
  • forms its advisory bodies (committees, etc.),
  • grants public recognition for merit,
  • grants prior consent to the transfer of ownership of immovable property entrusted to the administration of the borough,
  • in urgent cases, the mayor decides on the competence of boroughs to perform the self-government functions of the capital city and the tasks of state administration delegated to the capital city which are not regulated by the Statute.

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.