Mayor of Vilnius

The Mayor of Vilnius, officially the Mayor of the municipality of the city of Vilnius (Lithuanian: "Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės meras") is the head of the Lithuanian municipality of the city of Vilnius.[1]

Mayor of Vilnius
Coat of arms of the city of Vilnius
Incumbent
Remigijus Šimašius
since 22 April 2015
Inaugural holderVytautas Bernatonis
Formation1990
Website

Overview
Vilnius city municipality building, where mayor's office is located

Legislative and local executive powers are exercised by the municipality council (Lithuanian: savivaldybės taryba) and the directly elected mayor.

The mayor is member of municipality's council and chairman of it. Also mayor proposes candidates to his own deputies, the director of municipality administration and his deputies.

History
Former municipality building in Gediminas Avenue, used until 2004, now is a shopping mall GO9

Mayor's institution has been established in 1990 and it replaced city's executive committee chairman. From 1990 to 2015 the mayor had been elected by the city's council (since 1995 – city's municipality council).[2] Also between 1990 and 2003 mayor was member of municipality's board, which performed executive functions.[3]

Between 1995 and 2003 the mayor appointed (or fired) eldermen.[3]

Since 2015 the mayor is elected directly in two-round system by voters registered in the municipality.[4]

Mayors
  • Afanasiy Yarzhembskiy – 1876-1883[5]
  • Nikolay Rubtsov – 1884-1895[5]
  • Konstantin Aleksandrovich Golubinov – 1893-1897[6]
  • Pavel Vasilevich Berthold – 1897-1905[6]
  • Michał Węsławski – 1905-1916
  • Marian Dziewicki – 1918-1919[7]
  • Witold Abramowicz – 1919[8]
  • Witold Antoni Bańkowski – 1919-1927[7]
  • Józef Folejewski – 1927-1932[9]
  • Wiktor Maleszewski – 1932-1939[9]
  • Stasys Žymantas – 1941-1944
  • Vytautas Bernatonis – 1990–1993
  • Alis Vidūnas – 1995–1997
  • Algirdas Čiučelis – 1997
  • Rolandas Paksas – 1997–1999, 2000
  • Juozas Imbrasas – 1999–2000, 2007–2009
  • Artūras Zuokas – 2000–2003, 2003–2007, 2011–2015
  • Gediminas Paviržis – 2003
  • Vilius Navickas – 2009–2010
  • Raimundas Alekna – 2010–2011
  • Remigijus Šimašius – since 2015

References
  1. "Mayor". Vilnius.lt. Vilnius City Municipality. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  2. "Nuo šiol merai Lietuvoje bus renkami tiesiogiai". tv3.lt.
  3. "I-533 Lietuvos Respublikos vietos savivaldos įstatymas". e-seimas.lrs.lt.
  4. "TIESIOGINIAI MERŲ RINKIMAI LIETUVOJE: UŽTRUKĘ DEBATAI IR ŠVIEŽIA PATIRTIS" (PDF). www.vdu.lt. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  5. Wołkanowski 2015, p. 165.
  6. Wołkanowski 2015, p. 120.
  7. Wołkanowski 2015, p. 295.
  8. Wałdoch 2014, p. 474.
  9. Wałdoch 2014, p. 483.

Bibliography
  • Wałdoch, Jacek (2014). "Postulaty ugrupowań politycznych podczas wyborów do Rady Miejskiej miasta Wilna w latach 1919–1939". Tendencje rozwojowe myśli politycznej i prawnej.
  • Wołkanowski, Waldemar (2015). Michał Węsławski. Biografia prezydenta Wilna w latach 1905-1916 [Michał Węsławski. Biography of the President of Vilnius in 1905-1916] (in Polish). Opole.
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