Editing Mayor (section)

===Netherlands===
{{Main|Burgemeester}}

In the [[Netherlands]], the mayor ({{langx|nl|burgemeester}}) is the leader of the college of mayor and aldermen (''[[College van Burgemeester en Wethouders]]''), the municipal executive. In the Netherlands, {{Lang|nl|burgemeester}}''s'' are ''de facto'' appointed by the national [[Cabinet of the Netherlands|cabinet]], ''de jure'' by the [[Dutch Monarchy|monarch]]. Appointment is generally preceded by a selection procedure and nomination by the municipal council and king's commissioner (head of the provincial executive), and a nomination is only very rarely not followed by an appointment. Mayors preside over both the municipal executive and the legislative (''[[gemeenteraad]]''), although they can vote in the former and not in the latter. The title is sometimes translated as [[burgomaster]], to emphasise the appointed, rather than elected, nature of the office. The appointment procedure was brought for discussion in the early 2000s (decade), as some of the political parties represented in parliament regarded the procedure as undemocratic. Generally, mayors in the Netherlands are selected from the established political parties, although since the late 2010s mayors without political affiliation have become more common.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/04/16/partijloze-burgemeester-in-opmars-korpschef-schouten-voorgedragen-in-alkmaar-a4040113|title=Partijloze burgemeester in opmars: Korpschef Schouten voorgedragen in Alkmaar|newspaper=NRC |date=16 April 2021 |access-date=24 June 2021|archive-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103201159/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/04/16/partijloze-burgemeester-in-opmars-korpschef-schouten-voorgedragen-in-alkmaar-a4040113|url-status=live |last1=Borst |first1=Thomas }}</ref> Alternatives proposed were direct election of the mayor by the people or official appointment by the municipal council ({{Lang|nl|gemeenteraad}}). A constitutional change to allow for this failed to pass the [[Senate of the Netherlands|Senate]] in March 2005, but succeeded in 2018.