The candidates elected deputy mayor at major municipalities

One of the many innovations of the Local Government Reform is the election of deputy mayors directly by the citizens, in contrast to what has been the case until now.

The deputy mayors of each municipal district are expected to have increased powers and responsibilities while the Reform also provides for their salary upgrade, depending on the size of the municipal district they represent.

Regarding the remuneration of the deputy mayors, the original provision of the Law provided that all deputy mayors would be paid 50% of the Mayor's remuneration. Therefore, the 93 deputy mayors would have received a salary of €2,986.79 per month, greatly increasing the payroll for the Local Government.

However, in this context, the Ministry of Internal Affairs promoted legislation that changed this provision and now a reduction of the salaries of the deputy mayors to 20% of the mayors' salary for those representing communities of 1-500 inhabitants, 30% for communities with 501-1000 inhabitants and 50% for vice-mayors representing municipalities or communities with more than a thousand inhabitants.

Below you can see the deputy mayors at some of the major municipalities, as elected in the 9 June elections:

For Nicosia, the deputy mayors are Chrysanthos Fakas for Nicosia Municipality, Andreas Constantinou for Aglandjia Municipality, Panicos Constantinou for Engomi Municipality, and Constantinos Yiangou for the Municipality of Ayios Dhometios.

Stella Surmeli was elected deputy mayor for the Municipality of Strovolos.

The new deputy mayor for Lakatamia is Alkis Alkiviades while Michalis Xypsitis was voted in deputy mayor for Tseri. Froso Armosti is the new deputy mayor for Anthoupoli.

In the municipality of Latsia-Geri, the deputy mayor for Latsia is Kyprianos Filippou and, for Geri, it is Neophytos Papalazarou.

In the South Nicosia-Dali Municipality, Joseph Vassiliou is the new deputy mayor for Dali and Andreas Andreou is the deputy mayor for Pera Chorio-Nisou.

In Alambra the deputy mayor is Poppy Konstantinou Tsiopani and in Lympia it is Pantelis Xynisteris.

For Nissou and Potamia, the posts went to Kyriakos Poyatzis and Ioannis Minas respectively, who were elected unopposed.

More results can be seen on the official elections website.

(Source: Reporter)