Successful or failed attempts to remove elected officials by the way of popular vote, as a corrective democratic tool, have mostly been directed against mayors. The Commission focused therefore on this case. It considered the clear differentiation that needs to be made between the position of a directly elected mayor (more similar to the one of an elected president), on the one side, and that, on the other side, of individual elected members of a local council, when it comes to engaging, before the end of their mandate, the political responsibility of such officials. While the principle of prohibition of the imperative mandate is relevant for individual members of local councils, it is not applicable to elected mayors, to the extent that they are single-person executive officials and not individual members of elected collegiate assemblies.