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Mayor of Vilnius
Mayor of Vilnius
	Coat of arms of the city of Vilnius
	Incumbent; Valdas Benkunskas; since 26 April 2023
Formation	1990
Website	[1]

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] The current incumbent is Valdas Benkunskas,^[2]^[3] following the 2023 Vilnius mayor elections.

Overview

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

The mayor is both a member and the chairman of the municipality's council. The mayor also proposes candidates to his deputies, the director of municipality administration, and the director's deputies.

History

The mayor's institution was established in 1990 and it replaced the 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).^[4] Between 1990 and 2003, the mayor was a member of the municipality's board, which performed executive functions.^[5]

Between 1995 and 2003 the mayor appointed (or fired) eldermen.^[5]

Since 2015 the mayor is elected directly in a two-round system by voters registered in the municipality.^[6]

Mayors

Michał Józef Römer – 1812^[7]
Afanasiy Yarzhembskiy – 1876-1883^[8]
Nikolay Rubtsov – 1884-1895^[8]
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Golubinov – 1893-1897^[9]
Pavel Vasilevich Berthold – 1897-1905^[9]
Michał Węsławski – 1905-1916
Marian Dziewicki [pl] – 1918-1919^[10]
Witold Abramowicz – 1919^[11]
Witold Antoni Bańkowski [pl] – 1919-1927^[10]
Józef Folejewski – 1927-1932^[12]
Wiktor Maleszewski [pl] – 1932-1939^[12]
Stasys Žymantas [lt] – 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 – 2015-2023
Valdas Benkunskas – since 2023

References

^ "Mayor". Vilnius.lt. Vilnius City Municipality. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
^ "Vilniaus meru išrinktas Valdas Benkunskas: varžovą pasveikino ir Artūras Zuokas". zmones.lt. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
^ Voveriūnaitė, Simona. "Vilniaus miesto meru išrinktas Benkunskas planuoja darbus – pirmieji bus pradėti dar šiandien". DELFI (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2023-04-25.
^ "Nuo šiol merai Lietuvoje bus renkami tiesiogiai". tv3.lt.
^ ^a ^b "I-533 Lietuvos Respublikos vietos savivaldos įstatymas". e-seimas.lrs.lt.
^ "TIESIOGINIAI MERŲ RINKIMAI LIETUVOJE: UŽTRUKĘ DEBATAI IR ŠVIEŽIA PATIRTIS" (PDF). www.vdu.lt. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
^ "Romer Michał Józef, Encyklopedia PWN: źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy". encyklopedia.pwn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-08-16.
^ ^a ^b Wołkanowski 2015, p. 165.
^ ^a ^b Wołkanowski 2015, p. 120.
^ ^a ^b Wołkanowski 2015, p. 295.
^ Wałdoch 2014, p. 474.
^ ^a ^b 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)