Politics
Novi Sad is the administrative centre of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and as such, is home to Vojvodina's Government and Provincial Assembly.
The city's administration bodies consist of city assembly as representative body, mayor and city government as executive body. Members of the city assembly and mayor are elected at direct elections. City assembly has 78 seats, while city government has 11 members. The mayor and members of city's assembly are elected to four-year terms; and city government is elected on mayor’s proposal by the city assembly by majority of votes.
As of 2012 election, mayor of Novi Sad is Miloš Vučević (Serbian Progressive Party); while in the city assembly majority have Serbian Progressive Party, Socialist Party of Serbia, Democratic Party of Serbia and others minors groups.
Since 2002, when the new statute of Novi Sad came into effect, City of Novi Sad is divided into 46 local communities within two urban municipalities, Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, whose borders are defined by geographic boundaries (Danube river).
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
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