Editing Mayor (section)

===Greece===
{{See also|Mayor of Athens|Mayor of Thessaloniki}}

Mayors ({{Lang|el|δήμαρχοι}}, {{Lang|el-latn|dēmarchoi}}, sing. {{Lang|el|δήμαρχος}}, ''[[demarchos|dēmarchos]]'') in [[Greece]] were previously elected every four years in [[Elections in Greece#Local elections|local elections]] and are the head of various municipal governments in which the state is divided. Starting in 2014, mayors are elected for a five-year term. Local administration elections for the new, consolidated municipalities and peripheries will henceforth be held together with the [[Elections in the European Union|elections]] for the [[European Parliament]].

Local administration in Greece recently underwent extensive reform in two phases: the first phase, implemented in 1997 and commonly called the [[Kapodistrias Plan]], consolidated the country's numerous municipalities and communities down to approximately 1000. The second phase, initially called Kapodistrias II but eventually called the [[Kallikratis Plan]], was implemented in 2010, further consolidated municipalities down to 370, and merged the country's 54 prefectures, which were disbanded in favour of the larger 13 regions. The Kallikratian municipalities were designed according to several guidelines; for example, each island (except [[Crete]]) was incorporated into a single municipality, while the majority of small towns were consolidated so as to have an average municipal population of 25,000.