[3] The mayor is elected every four years by popular vote and is usually considered by general opinion to be the second most important political post in Colombia second only to the President of the Republic.

They might create those regulations, resolutions or orders they consider necessary to carry out City Ordinances, mirroring the normative faculties the president has when it comes to implementing laws passed by Congress.

They are tasked with overseeing the conduct of all the public servants under their authority and are competent to impose disciplinary sanctions after due process to any of them.

The Superior Mayor of Bogota, as the highest official within the district administration has various and ample prerogatives when it comes to the entities that make up the Central and decentralized sectors and the local municipalities.

Nevertheless, its top officials are appointed by the Superior Mayor's Office and thus tend to follow the same political lines as the city's administration.

Each decentralized entity is ascribed(if it belongs to the public sector) or vinculated (if it operates as a private enterprise) to a centralized dependency.

[16][17] For instance the Lottery of Bogota (a private enterprise wholly owned by the city's Government) is vinculated to the Distrital Secretariat of the Treasury.