Mayor-President of Melilla

The mayor-president has the responsibility to lead the government; appoint the government members; represent the City; convene and preside over the sessions of the Plenary;^[1] design, develop and execute the powers entrusted to the autonomous cities by the Constitution; dictate regulations; execute the budget; head the civil service and hire, fire or sanction the personnel at its service; head the local police; lead the urban planning; exercise all judicial actions to defend the interests of the City; and adopt all necessary measures in case of catastrophe.^[2]

The election system follows the general guidelines of all mayoral elections. The citizens vote for the local assemblies or councils on the basis of universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. The mayor-president is in turn elected by the plenary Assembly of Melilla, with a legal clause providing for the candidate of the most-voted party to be automatically elected to the post in the event no other candidate is to gather an absolute majority of votes.^[3]

The general cases of cessation are death, incapacitation or resignation.

As in the regional or State governments, the mayor-president can be removed by a vote of no confidence approved by the majority of the local assembly. This motion necessarily needs to proposed an alternative candidate, being a constructive vote of no confidence.^[3]

The mayor-president itself can also propose a vote of confidence in order to pass a relevant legislation and if the mayor-president fails to overcome the motion, the mayor must submit his resignation. The mayor-president can't propose more than one vote of confidence per year and this kind of motions can't be proposed on the last year of legislature.^[3]

In both processes, the mayor-president can not preside over the session, so it will correspond to one of the Vice Presidents of the Assembly.^[1]

For a list of leaders in the period prior to Melilla becoming an autonomous community (before 1995), see: List of governors of Melilla

Governments:

•   PP
•   Mixed coalition

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Party		Government Composition	Election	Monarch (Reign)	Ref.
		Took office	Left office	Duration
	Ignacio Velázquez Rivera (born 1953)	14 March 1995	3 March 1998 (censured)	2 years and 354 days		PP	Velázquez PP	1995	King Juan Carlos I (1975–2014)	[4] [5]
	Enrique Palacios Hernández (born 1952)	3 March 1998	5 July 1999	1 year and 124 days		Independent	Palacios PSOE–CpM–UPM			[6] [7]
	Mustafa Aberchán (born 1959)	5 July 1999	19 July 2000 (censured)	1 year and 14 days		CpM	Aberchán CpM–GIL–PIM	1999		[8] [9]
	Juan José Imbroda (born 1944)	19 July 2000	14 June 2003	19 years and 345 days		UPM	Imbroda I UPM–PP			[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
		14 June 2003	6 July 2007			PP	Imbroda II PP	2003
		6 July 2007	1 July 2011				Imbroda III PP	2007
		1 July 2011	3 July 2015				Imbroda IV PP	2011	King Felipe VI (2014–present)
		3 July 2015	15 June 2019				Imbroda V PP–PPL	2015
	Eduardo de Castro (born 1957)	15 June 2019	7 July 2023	4 years and 22 days		Cs	de Castro Cs–CpM–PSOE until Apr 2021 CpM–PSOE from Apr 2021	2019		[16] [17]
						Independent
	Juan José Imbroda (born 1944)	7 July 2023	Incumbent	355 days		PP	Imbroda VI PP	2023		[18]

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