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The Municipal Council of Tirana (Albanian: Këshilli Bashkiak i Tiranës) is the legislative body of Tirana, Albania. [1] As of 2019 it consists of 61 members who serve a 4-year term. [ 1 ] The members of the council are elected in local elections and the last elections were won by the Socialist Party.
The Mayor of Tirana (Albanian: Kryetari i Bashkisë së Tiranës) is the head of the General Assembly in Tirana, Albania. The mayor including with his cabinet, exercises the executive power of the city and is directly elected together with the City Council , directly for 4-year term.
The Mayoral Council is a political body in England that brings together ministers from the UK Government, the Mayor of London, and combined authority mayors. [1]
Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner meeting with Metro Mayors in July 2024 First official meeting of the Mayoral Council in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 10 October 2024. An unofficial meeting of mayors was held in July 2024 and the first formal meeting of the council took place in October 2024. The council is expected to meet four times a year. [21]
Municipalities are considered the basic administrative division of Albania. [1] Since its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania has reorganized internal administration 21 times.
The mayor may also have veto rights over council votes, with the council able to override such a veto. Conversely, in a weak-mayor system, the mayor has no formal authority outside the council, serving a largely ceremonial role as council chairperson and is elected by the citizens of the city. The mayor cannot directly appoint or remove ...
The mayor and city council serve part-time, with day-to-day administration in the hands of a professional city manager. The system is most common among medium-sized cities from around 25,000 to several hundred thousand, usually rural and suburban municipalities. Under the mayor-council system, the mayoralty and city council are separate offices.
Local elections were held in Albania held on 30 June 2019. Voters were asked to elect mayors, municipal council members, municipal unit mayors and municipal unit members. . These were the second local elections in Albania since substantial administrative reforms legislated in 2014 reduced the number of municipalities in the country t