Po redaktohet Skopje (paragraf)

==Administration==

===Status===
[[File:MKD muni nonn(Skopje).png|thumb|Greater Skopje among the [[municipalities of North Macedonia]]]]
Being the capital and largest city of North Macedonia, Skopje enjoys a particular status granted by law. The last revision of its status was made in 2004. Since then, the City of Skopje has been divided into 10 municipalities which all have a council and a mayor, like all of the country's municipalities. Municipalities only deal with matters specific of their territory, and the City of Skopje deals with matters that concern all of them, or that cannot be divided between two or more municipalities.<ref name="local">{{cite web |url=http://lgi.osi.hu/cimg/0/1/3/4/3/Skopje_s_final.doc |title=The City of Skopje, Case Study in the Project Financing Metropolitan Cities in Transitional Countries |author=Aleksandra Maksimovska Veljanovski |publisher=[[Open Society Institute]], Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, Budapest |year=2008 |access-date=13 October 2012}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

The City of Skopje is part of the [[Skopje Statistical Region]], which has no political or administrative power.<ref name="local"/>

===City Council===
The City Council consists of 45 members who serve a four-year term. It primarily deals with budget, global orientations and relations between the city and the government. Several commissions exist to treat more specific topics, such as urbanism, finances, environment of local development.<ref name="council">{{cite web |url=http://www.skopje.gov.mk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=601 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730023325/http://www.skopje.gov.mk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=601 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 July 2013 |title=Совет на Град Скопје, Мандат 2013–2017 |year=2013 |publisher=City of Skopje |access-date=4 July 2013}}</ref> The President of the council is elected by the Council Members. Since 2017 the president has been Ljubica Jancheva, member of [[SDSM]].<ref name="council"/>

Following the 2017 local elections, the City Council is constituted as follows:<ref name="council"/>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! '''Party / List'''
! '''Seats'''
| rowspan="10" |[[File:Skopje City Council 2017.svg|My Parliament2323]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Social Democratic Union of Macedonia|SDSM]]|| 21
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left;"| [[VMRO-DPMNE]] || 17
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Democratic Union for Integration|DUI]] || 3
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Besa Movement|BESA]] || 2
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Alliance for Albanians|AA]] || 1
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left;"| [[The Left (North Macedonia)|The Left]] || 1
|-
||'''Total''' || style="text-align:center;" |'''45'''
|}

===Mayor===

The Mayor of Skopje is elected every four years.
The mayor represents the City of Skopje and can submit ideas to the council, manages the administrative bodies and their officials.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skopje.gov.mk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=70 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220722/http://www.skopje.gov.mk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=70 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2007 |title=Competencies of the mayor |year=2009 |publisher=City of Skopje |access-date=15 March 2011}}</ref>

===Municipalities===
Skopje was first divided into administrative units in 1945, but the first municipalities were created in 1976. They were five: [[Centar Municipality (Skopje)|Centar]], [[Čair municipality|Čair]], [[Karpoš municipality|Karpoš]], [[Gazi Baba municipality|Gazi Baba]] and [[Kisela Voda municipality|Kisela Voda]]. After the 1991 independence of the country, power was centralized and municipalities lost much of their competences. A 1996 law restored them and created two new municipalities: [[Ǵorče Petrov municipality|Ǵorče Petrov]] and [[Šuto Orizari municipality|Šuto Orizari]]. After the [[2001 insurgency in Macedonia|insurgency between Albanian rebels and Macedonian forces]] in 2001, a new law was enacted in 2004 to incorporate [[Saraj Municipality]] into the City of Skopje. Saraj is mostly populated by Albanians and, since then, Albanians represent more than 20% of the city population. Thus Albanian became the second official language of the city administration, something which was one of the claims of the Albanian rebels. The same year, [[Aerodrom Municipality (Skopje)|Aerodrom Municipality]] separated itself from Kisela Voda, and [[Butel Municipality]] from Čair.<ref name="local"/>

Municipalities are administered by a council of 23 members elected every four years. They also have a mayor and several departments (education, culture, finances...). The mayor primarily deals with these departments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opstinacentar.gov.mk/administracija.aspx |title=Administration |publisher=Centar Municipality |access-date=15 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307064559/http://www.opstinacentar.gov.mk/administracija.aspx |archive-date=7 March 2011}}</ref>
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{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;" | Name
! style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;" | Size<br />(km<sup>2</sup>)<ref name="drisla">{{cite web |url=http://drisla.mk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Drisla-Landfill-Project-Feasibiity-Study.pdf |title=Drisla Landfill Feasibility Study, Volume 1 of 2 – Main Findings – Final Report |year=2011 |publisher=Mott MacDonald Ltd |access-date=24 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226212124/http://drisla.mk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Drisla-Landfill-Project-Feasibiity-Study.pdf |archive-date=26 December 2013}}</ref>
! style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;" | Population 2002<ref name="stats1">{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.mk/Publikacii/knigaXIII.pdf |title=Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2002, Book XIII:Total population, households and dwellings, According to the territorial organization of The Republic of Macedonia, 2004, 2002 |publisher=State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia |access-date=14 October 2012}}</ref>
! style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;" | Population 2021<ref name="stats2">{{Cite web |date=2022-03-30 |title=Попис на населението, домаќинствата и становите во Република Северна Македонија, 2021 - прв сет на податоци, 2021 |url=https://www.stat.gov.mk/PrikaziSoopstenie.aspx?rbrtxt=146 |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=www.stat.gov.mk |publisher=Republic of North Macedonia State Statistical Office |language=mk}}</ref>
|-
| [[Aerodrom Municipality (Skopje)|Aerodrom]] || 20 || 72,009 || 77,735
|-
| [[Butel municipality|Butel]] || 54.79 || 36,144 || 37,968
|-
| [[Centar Municipality (Skopje)|Centar]] || 7.52 || 45,412 || 43,893
|-
| [[Čair municipality|Čair]] || 3.52 || 64,773 || 62,586
|-
| [[Gazi Baba municipality|Gazi Baba]] || 110.86 || 72,617 || 69,626
|-
| [[Ǵorče Petrov Municipality|Ǵorče Petrov]] || 66.93 || 41,634 || 44,844
|-
| [[Karpoš municipality|Karpoš]] || 35.21 || 59,666 || 63,760
|-
| [[Kisela Voda municipality|Kisela Voda]] || 34.24 || 57,236 || 61,965
|-
| [[Saraj municipality|Saraj]] || 229.06 || 35,408 || 38,399
|-
| [[Šuto Orizari municipality|Šuto Orizari]] || 7.48 || 22,017 || 25,726
|- style="background: #E9E9E9;" 
|| '''City of Skopje''' || style="background: #E9E9E9;" | 571.46 || style="background: #E9E9E9;" | 506,926 || style="background: #E9E9E9;" | 526,502
|}
| [[File:Skopje administrative division numbered1.png|right]]
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#[[File:Coat of arms of Centar Municipality, Macedonia.svg|20px]] [[Centar Municipality (Skopje)|Centar]] (''Центар'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Gazi Baba Municipality.svg|20px]] [[Gazi Baba municipality|Gazi Baba]] (''Гази Баба'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Aerodrom Municipality, 2012-present.svg|20px]] [[Aerodrom Municipality (Skopje)|Aerodrom]] (''Аеродром'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Čair Municipality.svg|20px]] [[Čair municipality|Čair]] (''Чаир'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Kisela Voda Municipality (2015).svg|20px]] [[Kisela Voda municipality|Kisela Voda]] (''Кисела Вода'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Butel Municipality.svg|20px]] [[Butel municipality|Butel]] (''Бутел'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Šuto Orizari Municipality.svg|20px]] [[Šuto Orizari municipality|Šuto Orizari]] (''Шуто Оризари'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Karpoš Municipality.svg|20px]] [[Karpoš municipality|Karpoš]] (''Карпош'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Ǵorče Petrov Municipality.svg|20px]] [[Ǵorče Petrov municipality|Ǵorče Petrov]] (''Ѓорче Петров'')
#[[File:Coat of arms of Saraj Municipality.svg|20px]] [[Saraj municipality|Saraj]] (''Сарај'')
|}