The left-wing mayoress of Mexico city organised a "tolerance festival", and the city council voted to ease restrictions on abortion.
The visitors "all pull the chain," Luz Zasso, the mayoress, notes acidly.
MARIA JAZILDA GODOY, mayoress of Olinda in north-east Brazil, conducts her municipal business from a high-ceilinged office on the upper floor of the town hall, a monument to the town's history.
Informed of a guerrilla bomb attack which almost killed the mayoress of Neiva, a southern city, he changed his plans for the rest of the day.
There will certainly be more than one inhabitant incensed with the mayoress and her less than enlightened views.
"I don't think many people knew she even lived here until all of this," said the mayoress.
In 2010-11 she was Camden's ceremonial mayoress, and in November 2016 she was announced by the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, as the city's first night tsar, a role created to safeguard the capital's night-time economy.
The issue has become central to my own life: in recent weeks I have become deputy mayoress of the London borough of Ealing.
If the mayor and mayoress are not using it, the deputy mayor and I can command a Jag with the council crest on top complete with driver for official business.
As long ago as 1988, a Sun editorial infamously opined that "Brighton has become a nasty town of drugs, gays, Aids and drunks... with a left-dominated council whose mayoress once refused to curtsy for royalty", inadvertently touching upon several things that many of us living here find BN1-derful.
