Editing Tarragona (section)

==Politics==
The local mayor is elected by the members of the plenary from among its members the day the new municipal corporation is formed after the local election. The officeholder has a mandate for the 4-year duration of the elected body. If the mayor leaves office ahead of time a new voting may take place among the plenary members in order to invest a new mayor (meanwhile, another local councillor, conventionally the first deputy mayor may act as acting mayor). Since 15 June 2019 the mayor is [[Pau Ricomà]].<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/tarragona/20190615/462878201057/pau-ricoma-alcalde-tarragona-coalicion-comu-podem.html |journal=[[La Vanguardia]] |title=Pau Ricomà, de ERC, pone fin a doce años de gobierno del socialista Ballesteros en Tarragona |date=2019-06-15 |first=Sara |last=Sans |access-date=18 July 2020 |archive-date=8 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808012208/https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/tarragona/20190615/462878201057/pau-ricoma-alcalde-tarragona-coalicion-comu-podem.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The opening session in which the mayor is invested is traditionally held at the ''Saló de Plens''.

;List of mayors
Since the first democratic election after the [[Francoist Spain|Francoist dictatorship]], Tarragona has had four democratically elected mayors:
*Josep Maria Recasens ([[Socialists' Party of Catalonia|PSC]]): 1979–1989
*Joan Miquel Nadal ([[Convergence and Union|CiU]]): 1989–2007
*Josep Fèlix Ballesteros ([[Socialists' Party of Catalonia|PSC]]): 2007–2019
*Pau Ricomà ([[Republican Left of Catalonia|ERC]]): 2019–2023
*Rubén Viñuales ([[Socialists' Party of Catalonia|PSC]]): 2023–present

The local is the body formed by the elected councillors of the ''Ajuntament''. The plenary meetings (''Ple'') are held at the Saló de Plens. It is formed by the municipal councillors, elected through [[Closed list|closed party list]] [[proportional representation]] and 27 councillors are currently elected on the basis of the population of the municipality. Councillors are grouped in municipal groups on the basis of their political filiation. It has a government commission (''Comissió de Govern''; also ''Junta de Govern'' or ''Junta de Gobierno'') is formed by the mayor, the deputy mayors, and a number of appointed councillors.