Duration of mandate and call for municipal elections

1. The mandate of the councillors of the local council has duration of four years.

2. The head of government fixes, by decree, the date of elections to be held during the first twenty days of December of the election year. The same decree, which shall be published between thirty and forty working days prior to the date of the elections, has to establish the length of the election campaign, in the terms provided in Article 26.