The 1st Administrative Court in Amed (Diyarbakır ) has ruled a stay of execution regarding the co-mayoral system in the Metropolitan Municipality of Amed.

Processing the application of Amed Governorate for the annulment of the “Work regulation for the co-mayors” approved by the municipal assembly and a stay of execution of the model, the 1st Administrative Court in Amed decided that the co-mayoral model does not comply with Turkish law.

The ruling emphasized that the aforementioned model approved by municipal assemblies allowed the sharing of authority by elected mayors with a person called “co-mayor”. It considered that the model rendered the mayors unable to carry out their duties on their own.

The ruling said the model of co-chair has only been approved in the Law of Political Parties, and the aforementioned model for the municipalities has not been approved in any law, but has only been regulated by the municipal assembly.

The court said: “In the case of the continuation of the execution of the aforementioned model, it is clear that the activities and any proceeding carried out under the title of mayor by the so called ‘co-mayor’, who is assigned by municipal regulation besides the mayor, will be unlawful and invalid and will lead in the future to some harm to administrative functioning, for which restitution will be either difficult or impossible. A stay of execution of the model has thus been decided for the aforementioned reasons”.

The Diyarbakır 3rd Administrative Court previously ruled a stay of execution of the co-chair model in 7 district municipalities in the main Kurdish city.