Post: | Mayor |
Body: | Skopje |
Insignia: | Coat of arms of Skopje.svg |
Insigniasize: | 125px |
Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Skopje |
Native Name: | Градоначалник на Град Скопје |
Incumbent: | Danela Arsovska |
Incumbentsince: | 2021 |
Termlength: | Four years |
Formation: | 1991 (Republic of Macedonia) 1941 (PR Macedonia) 1912 (Kingdom of Serbia) |
Inaugural: | Milan Talevski |
Website: | http://www.skopje.gov.mk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=13 |
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]
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.
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:[2]
The list of the mayors of Skopje includes the following persons:[3]
Name | Took office | Left office | |
---|---|---|---|
1st | Gjore Kitinchev | 1915 | 1917 |
2nd | Hristo Popkotsev | 1917 | 1918 |
Name | Took office | Left office | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Spiro Hadzi-Ristic | 1918 | 1920 | |
2nd | Dušan Cekić | 1920 | same year | |
3rd | Kosta Stefanović - Arsenovski | 1920 | 1921 | |
4th | Aleksandar Bukvić | 1921 | 1923 | |
5th | Nikola Sapundzhić | 1923 | 1929 | |
6th | Josif Mihajlović | 1929 | 1936 | |
7th | Dr. Petar S. Jovanović | 1936 | same year | |
8th | Panta Jovanović | 1936 | 1938 | |
9th | Kosta Čohadžić | 1938 | 1939 | |
10th | Josif Mihajlović | 1939 | 1941 |
Name | Took office | Left office | |
---|---|---|---|
1st | Yanko Mustakov | 1941 | same yеаr |
2nd | Spiro Kitinchev | 1941 | 1944 |
Name | Took office | Left office | |
---|---|---|---|
1st | Lazar Tanev | 1944 | 1945 |
2nd | Dimche Zograimfski | 1945 | 1947 |
3rd | Gorgji Ikonomov | 1947 | 1948 |
4th | Dushko Lukarski | 1948 | same year |
5th | Vera Aceva | 1948 | same year |
6th | Asparuh Kanevchev | 1949 | same year |
7th | Naum Naumovski - Borche | 1950 | same year |
8th | Blagoja Nikolovski | 1951 | same year |
9th | Kemal Seyfula | 1951 | 1954 |
10th | Vasil Gorgov | 1954 | 1956 |
11th | Naum Naumovski - Borche | 1956 | 1960 |
12th | Krste Markovski | 1960 | 1963 |
13th | Blagoj Popov | 1963 | 1969 |
14th | Dragoljub Stratev | 1969 | 1974 |
15th | Metodi Antonov | 1974 | 1982 |
16th | Trajko Apostolski | 1982 | 1984 |
17th | Dushan Popovski | 1984 | 1986 |
18th | Jugoslav Todorovski | 1986 | 1991 |
Name | Took office | Left office | Political party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Milan Talevski | 1991 | 1993 | VMRO-DPMNE[4] [5] | |
2nd | Goran Nikolovski | 1993 | 1995 | VMRO-DPMNE[6] | |
3rd | Jove Kekenovski | 1995 | 1996 | VMRO-DPMNE[7] | |
4th | Risto Penov | 1996 | 2005 | Liberal Democratic Party[8] | |
5th | Trifun Kostovski | 2005 | 2009 | Independent[9] | |
6th | Koce Trajanovski | 2009 | 2017 | VMRO-DPMNE[10] | |
7th | Petre Shilegov | 2017 | 2021 | SDSM[11] | |
8th | 2021 | incumbent | Independent[12] |