The mayor of Skopje (; ) 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. The obligations of the mayor include:
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 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 Orce Ǵorǵievski.
City Council
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:
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: Official website of the City of Skopje - Mayors of Skopje (list)
Kingdom of Serbia #NameTook officeLeft office1stSpiro Hadzi-Ristic19121915
Kingdom of Bulgaria #NameTook officeLeft office1stGjore Kitinchev191519172ndHristo Popkotsev19171918
Kingdom of Yugoslavia #NameTook officeLeft office1stSpiro Hadzi-Ristic191819202ndDušan Cekić1920same year3rdKosta Stefanović - Arsenovski192019214thAleksandar Bukvić192119235thNikola Sapundzhić192319296thJosif Mihajlović192919367thDr. Petar S. Jovanović1936same year8thPanta Jovanović193619389thKosta Čohadžić1938193910thJosif Mihajlović19391941
Kingdom of Bulgaria #NameTook officeLeft office1stYanko Mustakov1941same yеаr2ndSpiro Kitinchev19411944
Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia #NameTook officeLeft office1stLazar Tanev194419452ndDimche Zografski194519473rdGorgji Ikonomov194719484thDushko Lukarski1948same year5thVera Aceva1948same year6thAsparuh Kanevchev1949same year7thNaum Naumovski - Borche1950same year8thBlagoja Nikolovski1951same year9thKemal Sejfula1951195410thVasil Gjorgov1954195611thNaum Naumovski - Borche1956196012thKrste Markovski1960196313thBlagoj Popov1963196914thDragoljub Stavrev1969197415thMetodi Antonov1974198216thTrajko Apostolski1982198417thDushan Popovski1984198618thJugoslav Todorovski19861991
Republic of North Macedonia #NameTook officeLeft officePolitical party1stMilan Talevski19911993VMRO-DPMNEUtrinski - Local elections in SkopjeNote: Talevski was voted by the Skopje City Council2ndGoran Nikolovski19931995VMRO-DPMNE3rdJove Kekenovski19951996VMRO-DPMNEOfficial website of the City of Skopje - Jove Kekenovski4thRisto Penov19962005Liberal Democratic Party5thTrifun Kostovski20052009IndependentDnevnik - Trifun Kostovski, Mayor of Skopje 6thKoce Trajanovski20092017VMRO-DPMNE7thPetre Shilegov20172021SDSMPlusInfo.mk - Petre Shilegov is new mayor of Skopje 8thDanela Arsovska 20212025Independent9thOrce Ǵorǵievski 2025Incumbent VMRO-DPMNE
See also Timeline of Skopje
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