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Today, during the official ceremony, the winners of the Mayor of the Year Award were announced in Bulgaria. This was the 10th-anniversary edition and 72,000 citizens cast their votes online to choose their favourite local leaders, as part of the initiative of the Kmeta.bg news portal.
The major award “Mayor of the Year” went to the mayor of Maglizh, Dusho Gavazov for the Small municipality category, to the mayor of Sandanski, Atanas Stoyanov, for the Medium municipality category and to the mayor of Pernik, Stanislav Vladimirov, in the Large municipality category.
The other big prizes for Mayor of the Citizens went to Mayor Dusho Gavazov from Maglizh, Mayor Marinela Nikolova from Kozloduy and Mayor Zhivko Todorov from Stara Zagora, in the respective size categories.
TheMayor.EU, a long-standing supporter and media partner of the event, presented a special award to Sofia Municipality for the InnoAir project. The project aims to create a public transport system that shifts routes with demand, instead of having fixed ones. The developers will do this via AI data analysis and real time, while citizens will be able to check the routes via an app.
This project is a first for Europe and the developers will launch a pilot in one of the Bulgarian capital’s districts this autumn.
Between 15 and 30 September, everyone with a Bulgarian IP address had the chance to cast their vote for the local leader of the year. Apart from the big award, there were also different categories like Smart City, Green City, Urban Environment, Tourism and Culture and Sport.
All awards have a classification, based on the size of the municipality with small being classed as under 20,000 inhabitants, medium – between 20,000 and 50,000 and large – over 50,000. Here are the winners:
Smart City
Green City
Urban Environment
Tourism and Culture
Sport
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