How will the mayor be elected?
A. Any political party or bloc that sweeps the election polling more than 50 percent of the vote will automatically be entitled to install its top candidate as mayor. If none of the participating forces manages to win an outright majority, the mayor will be elected, by a simple vote, from among the candidates nominated by the forces voted into the assembly. An amendment made in the electoral code in January introduced the notion of so-called bonus, which means that if any party or bloc manages to gain 40 percent of the vote, an additional 10 percent will be given to it as a bonus to form an absolute majority and become entitled to have its top candidate as new mayor.
