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Old 11-15-2013, 02:58 PM   #1381
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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19 View Post
See I heard about this and I don't get how this is possible. How can councillors vote to effectively strip an elected official of power without holding a new election? Seriously, I get it in this situation, but in the abstract that shouldn't be something they can do.
I don't really know. I found this on the web:

http://people.howstuffworks.com/gove...ics/mayor1.htm

It sounds like some mayors do have less authority and are more of figureheads, if that is what the council wants (and the mayor is essentially just a part of the council, but with some special powers). The councilors, it seems, want a weak-mayor system for now.
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