Mayor of Worlport

The Mayor of Worlport is an executive elected to administer the city of Worlport on Ord Mantell.
==History==
Ord Mantell began as a military depot and then a full-fledged colony of Corellia with its own viceroy elected by all Corellians and Mantellians (mostly by the former as the latter were de facto disenfranchised by the fact that the election took place on Corellia and few could afford the trip). 
The viceroy of Ord Mantell ruled the planet from the Corellian fortress in Worlport and more often in later times from his office in Coronet on Corellia itself. Over the centuries as Corellia lost interest in day-to-day matters, Mantell was left increasingly on its own while its indigenous offices and those who held them grew in power. The chief among those offices was the mayoralty of Worlport. The mayor of Worlport ran the largest city on the planet and its busiest spaceport and over the years, by custom and law, power coalesced around the office. By the time Lask Daving was elected, he was able to viably claim to lead the entire planet and act as the self-appointed advisor to the Galactic Senate from Ord Mantell. 
==Present status==
After the Amalfiel Daving Crisis, invasions by the Black Imperium and the Hutts as well as the usual elections on Corellia, the mayor of Worlport remains an official with great prestige on Ord Mantell, especially when the viceroyalty proves to be a weak one and when the mayor is able to successfully wed the interests of the transient Outer Rim population of Worlport proper with those of the insular outlying communities of the countryside. The mayor is elected by all of Ord Mantell. 
A major point of contention between the viceroy of Mantell, who is generally elected by Corellians and the mayor of Worlport is the Corellian policy of keeping Mantellian labor cheap. Ord Mantell is currently the principal supplier of raw materials to Corellia so a less-than-affluent Ord Mantell is in the best interest of Corellian businesses. This, when combined with the voting procedures for the office of viceroy of Mantell, has led to an understandable revolutionary sentiment among Mantellians and there have been a number of incidents. 
==Eligibility==
The mayor of Worlport is regarded by the locals as the 'true' viceroy of Mantell. By local laws and traditions this position may not be held by a member of the Galactic Senate (unless a seat is created for Ord Mantell) or by the leader of another world.
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