The election system follows the general guidelines of all mayoral elections. The citizens vote for the local assemblies or councils on the basis of
universal suffrage, with all nationals over eighteen, registered in the corresponding municipality and in full enjoyment of all political rights entitled to vote. The mayor-president is in turn elected by the plenary
Assembly of Melilla, with a legal clause providing for the candidate of the most-voted party to be automatically elected to the post in the event no other candidate is to gather an absolute majority of votes.
Cessation The general cases of cessation are death, incapacitation or resignation. As in the regional or State governments, the mayor-president can be removed by a
vote of no confidence approved by the majority of the local assembly. This motion necessarily needs to proposed an alternative candidate, being a
constructive vote of no confidence. The mayor-president itself can also propose a
vote of confidence in order to pass a relevant legislation and if the mayor-president fails to overcome the motion, the mayor must submit his resignation. The mayor-president can't propose more than one vote of confidence per year and this kind of motions can't be proposed on the last year of legislature. In both processes, the mayor-president can not preside over the session, so it will correspond to one of the Vice Presidents of the Assembly. ==List of Mayor-Presidents of Melilla==