Mayor of the City of Skopje

The mayor of Skopje (Macedonian: Градоначалник на Скопје) is the city mayor who is representing North Macedonia's capital city Greater Skopje and all of its municipalities. Also, the mayor's decisions are confirmed or rejected by the City Council of Skopje (Macedonian: Совет на Град Скопје). The obligations of the mayor include:[1]

  • declaring the acts of the Council and publishes them in the "Official Gazette of the City of Skopje";
  • caring and ensuring the implementation of the acts of the Council;
  • caring for the activities that with law are entrusted to the City of Skopje;
  • proposing to the Council for making decisions and other general acts of its jurisdiction, etc.
Mayor of Skopje
Градоначалник на Град Скопје (in Macedonian)
Incumbent
Danela Arsovska
since 2021
Term lengthFour years
Inaugural holderMilan Talevski
Formation1991 (Republic of Macedonia)
1941 (PR Macedonia)
1912 (Kingdom of Serbia)
Website[1]

Mayor cooperates with the municipal mayors of the city of Skopje, for building common views, common setting priorities and taking joint action on certain issues and problems of interest to the city as a whole. The current mayor of Skopje is Danela Arsovska.

City Council

Composition of the Skopje City Council: VMRO-Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity - 22
Social Democratic Union of Macedonia - 14
Democratic Union for Integration - 5
Democratic Party of Albanians - 3
Democratic Renewal of Macedonia - 1
Reference:[2]

The council of Skopje has in total 45 councilors which are elected in general, direct, free and democratic elections. The members of the City Council are elected with a mandate that lasts four years. The councilors represent the citizens. The current president of the council is Irena Misheva. The duties of the council are:[3]

  • adopts the Statute of the City of Skopje and other regulations;
  • adopts the budget and annual account of the City of Skopje;
  • determines the amount of its own sources of revenue to fund the City of Skopje, within the borders determined by law;
  • establishes public services within the remit of the City and supervises their work;
  • adopts programs and financial plans to fund public services; funder is the City of Skopje;
  • adopts reports on budget execution and the annual account of the City of Skopje;
  • grants permission to perform activities of public interest and local significance, in accordance with law;
  • adopts the reports on working and annual accounts of public services; funder is the City of Skopje;
  • decides on how to dispose of the property of the City of Skopje;
  • decides on how to perform the financial control of the budget of the City of Skopje, in accordance with law;
  • reviews and adopts the annual report on public safety in the area of the City of Skopje, which is submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ombudsman;
  • makes recommendations to the manager of the local branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of public security and safety in traffic, etc.

List of mayors of Skopje

The list of the mayors of Skopje includes the following persons:[4]

Kingdom of Serbia

#NameTook officeLeft office
1stSpiro Hadzi-Ristic19121915

Kingdom of Bulgaria

#NameTook officeLeft office
1stGjore Kitinchev19151917
2ndHristo Popkotsev19171918

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

#NameTook officeLeft office
1stSpiro Hadzi-Ristic19181920
2ndDušan Cekić1920same year
3rdKosta Stefanović - Arsenovski19201921
4thAleksandar Bukvić19211923
5thNikola Sapundzhić19231929
6thJosif Mihajlović19291936
7thDr. Petar S. Jovanović1936same year
8thPanta Jovanović19361938
9thKosta Čohadžić19381939
10thJosif Mihajlović19391941

Kingdom of Bulgaria

#NameTook officeLeft office
1stYanko Mustakov1941same yеаr
2ndSpiro Kitinchev19411944

Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia

#NameTook officeLeft office
1stLazar Tanev19441945
2ndDimche Zograimfski19451947
3rdGorgji Ikonomov19471948
4thDushko Lukarski1948same year
5thVera Aceva1948same year
6thAsparuh Kanevchev1949same year
7thNaum Naumovski - Borche1950same year
8thBlagoja Nikolovski1951same year
9thKemal Seyfula19511954
10thVasil Gorgov19541956
11thNaum Naumovski - Borche19561960
12thKrste Markovski19601963
13thBlagoj Popov19631969
14thDragoljub Stratev19691974
15thMetodi Antonov19741982
16thTrajko Apostolski19821984
17thDushan Popovski19841986
18thJugoslav Todorovski19861991

Republic of North Macedonia

#NameTook officeLeft officePolitical party
1stMilan Talevski19911993VMRO-DPMNE[5][6]
2ndGoran Nikolovski19931995VMRO-DPMNE[7]
3rdJove Kekenovski19951996VMRO-DPMNE[8]
4thRisto Penov19962005Liberal Democratic Party[9]
5thTrifun Kostovski20052009Independent[10]
6thKoce Trajanovski20092017VMRO-DPMNE[11]
7thPetre Shilegov20172021SDSM[12]
8thDanela Arsovska2021incumbentIndependent[13]

See also

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