The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

It is unlikely that the term " democracy " was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of a valid " demarchy ", as the word " demarchy " already existed and had the meaning of mayor or municipal.

The mayor presides over and is a voting member of the council.

A mayor is elected every two years.

The city is governed by a " strong " mayor system who appoints two council members and / or city residents to serve at the mayor's pleasure on the board of public works and safety.

It is used for receptions of guests of the town, and as an office for the mayor.

Each borough is governed by a borough council ( Bezirksamt ) consisting of five councilors ( Bezirksstadträte ) and a borough mayor ( Bezirksbürgermeister ).

The mayor as of 2010 is Winni Grosbøll, a member of the Social Democrats ( Socialdemokraterne ) political party.

The city's former mayor, Darwin Hindman, is largely in favor of a non-motorized transportation system, and can often be seen riding his bicycle around the city.

The mayor is elected in a citywide vote to a four year term.

The crooked town's mayor, Hiram J. Slade ( Samuel S. Hinds ), who is in collusion with Kent, appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale ( Charles Winninger ), as the new sheriff, assuming that he'll be easy to control and manipulate.

But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under the famous lawman, Tom Destry and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry, Jr. ( James Stewart ) to help him make Bottleneck a lawful, respectable town.

* 1724 – Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn ( Toruń ) by Polish authorities.

* 1993 – The mayor of Wien ( Vienna ), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.

John Hawley or Hauley, a licensed privateer and sometime mayor of Dartmouth is reputed to be a model for Chaucer's " schipman ".

As of 2012, the mayor of Davenport is Bill Gluba.

The mayor is top elected individual for the city.

The city administrator, currently Craig Malin, is appointed by the mayor with confirmation by two-thirds of the council.

The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

During the supernatural chaos towards the end of the film, LaGuardia is said to have come back to talk to the current mayor of New York in his bedroom for an hour and a half, despite LaGuardia's being " dead for forty years ".

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

The current mayor of Gilbert Plains is Lyle Smith.

In elections held on May 10, 2008, Granjeno voters elected a mayor ( Vicente Garza, Jr .) and two commissioners ( Marco De Rueda and Roy Garcia ) who all were under the age of 25.

* Patty Di Marco ( Sarah Silverman )-Ned's mean girlfriend who works for the mayor.

In February 2012 she ran in a primary election to seek a second term as mayor, but lost to independent candidate Marco Doria.

Their mayor is currently Marco Tulio Ramirez Estrada.

The current mayor ( alcalde ) is Marco Alvarez.

The current mayor of Milan is Giuliano Pisapia, expression of a progressive alliance composed by the Democratic Party of Italy, Left Ecology Freedom, the Greens and the Communist Refoundation Party.

The current mayor of Modena is Giorgio Pighi, expression of a progressive alliance composed by the Democratic Party of Italy, and the Federation of the Left.

Since 1997 the city suffered a stardust revolution with the coming of a great mayor of expression that made ​​ the city developed in very little time.

Singh ’ s imprisonment led rabble. ca to writing an open letter to the Minister of Justice in Quebec, which stated that “ the imprisonment of Jaggi Singh is a serious breach of civil liberties that threatens freedom of political expression .” The letter also included a petition signed by people such as activist David Suzuki, former mayor of Toronto John Sewell and former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations Stephen Lewis.

Byrne made some progressive moves as mayor, such as hiring the first black school superintendent, and she was the first Mayor to recognize the gay community.

His progressive stances on the issues put Kefauver in direct competition with E. H. Crump, the former U. S. congressman, mayor of Memphis and boss of the state's Democratic Party, when he chose to seek the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate in 1948.

Sawyer was elected mayor by the other members of the city council in a tumultuous and bitter meeting protested by thousands of angry minority and progressive citizens, and took over from interim mayor David Duvall Orr.

However, the progressive coalition that had finally ousted the political machine of former mayor Richard J. Daley was destroyed.

Richard M. Daley, son of Richard J. Daley, became mayor in 1989, and has been repeatedly reelected because his progressive program has contributed to the economic and environmental health of the city.

Ammiano ran for mayor again in 2003, but did not win enough votes to make that run-off after Supervisor Matt Gonzalez entered the race, splitting the progressive vote.

Caballero ran for mayor on a progressive platform in favor of expanding public transportation and municipal parklands, and bringing renewal to long-neglected areas in the central city.

The progressive Berlin mayor Gustav Böss defended them: " We want to bring the lower levels of society higher.

Both Takoma, D. C., and Takoma Park, Maryland, were noted regionally and nationally for progressive politics dating from the 1960s, when area residents ( led by future Takoma Park, MD mayor Sam Abbott ) rallied to prevent a 10-lane freeway from bisecting the community, and lobbied to build the Metrorail system, on the site of the former B & O railroad station around which the community had been built.

Winn served one term as mayor of Atlanta from 1911 to 1913 and was considered a progressive.