3. POLITICAL AND OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT: THINK GLOBALLY, ACT TRANSVERSALLY POLITICAL MANAGEMENT Who has the right to make a global political decision involving numerous sector-specific officials? We have observed 3 different models: • The Mayor: Liège, Turin. • A specifically-dedicated municipal deputy or councillor; Nantes, Paris, Bordeaux, Vilnius. • Co-management between several deputies commissioned by the Mayor: Bordeaux (from 2018 to 2020). For district Mayors: in Paris, nomination of one elected official as Night Mayor. Since 2020, Bordeaux has a municipal councillor in charge of Nightlife, appointed as such by Mayor Pierre Hurmic. Several European cities have a Night Mayor. These individuals are not elected officials, but rather people from outside of the municipality, generally stakeholders in nightlife culture who are elected or appointed by the Mayor and officially recognized in their function, sometimes having also financial resources like in London, Lausanne, Mannheim, Tbilisi, or the main Dutch cities (like Amsterdam and Rotterdam). Other cities use various iterations of this model. This is the case in Zurich, where the area of nightlife is politically managed by the Council of the Night Mayor (not an elected official but a group of six nightlife campaigners from different professional backgrounds). It is thus more a matter of the convergence of different stakeholders’ interests and needs who agree on particular points rather than a long-term strategy with a cross-cutting approach. Furthermore, this model enables an important lobbying approach for active groups and networks.
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In the 7th district of BUDAPEST, the political leadership is performed by three deputy mayors who are in charge of the Security / Tranquillity and Urban Development portfolios. They work in close cooperation with: police experts and representatives; local surveillance bodies (a specifically Hungarian example, the Rendészeti Igazgatóság); tourism and urban development experts; as well as with civil society representatives, nightlife-related business owners and the inhabitants of the district.
7th district of Budapest (nightview)
In VILNIUS, the nightlife strategy is led by an elected municipal councillor who works in collaboration a working group called Nighttime Economy Commission and with an independent NGO called ‘Vilnius Night Alliance’(1), which represents venues, organisers and artists.
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(1) Official website for Vilnius Night Alliance: https://vna.lt/
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