Editing Riga (section)

== Government ==
{{Main|Riga City Council}}
[[File:Riga - City Hall.jpg|thumb|[[Riga City Council]]]]

The head of the city government in Riga is the mayor, or officially the Chairman of the Riga City Council. The mayor is elected by the city council. He or she is assisted by one or more Vice Mayors (deputy mayors). The current mayor is [[Vilnis Ķirsis]], who was elected on 17 August 2023 from [[New Unity]], with support from "Coalition for Cooperation", consisting of [[New Unity]], [[National Alliance (Latvia)|National Alliance/Latvian Regional Alliance (NA/LRA)]], Code for Riga, [[Honor to serve Riga|Honor to server Riga]] and [[For Latvia's Development]] factions.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

The city council is a democratically elected institution and is the final decision-making authority in the city. The Council consists of 60 members or deputies who are elected every four years. The Presidium of the Riga City Council consists of the Chairman of the Riga City Council and the representatives delegated by the political parties or party blocks elected to the City Council. From February to October 2020, the offices of the Mayor and Vice Mayors were suspended and the council itself had been dissolved and replaced by an interim administration of representatives from three [[Government of Latvia|governmental]] ministries until snap [[2020 Riga City Council election|elections]] were held in 2020.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}