Jokowi dan 4 Walikota Terbaik 2012

Walikota yang di anugrahi walikota terbaik termasuk didalamnya Joko Widodo yang akrab disapa Jokowi masuk dalam lima besar kandidat wali kota terbaik yang mewakili Asia. Selain Jokowi, ada Wali Kota Tel Aviv (Israel) Ron Huldai, Wali Kota Angeles City (Filipina) Edgardo Pamintuan, Wali Kota Changwon City (Korea Selatan), dan Wali Kota Ankara (Turki) Melih Gokcek.

Selain dari Asia, finalis pesaing Jokowi berasal dari lima kategori wilayah lainnya. Di antaranya lima wali kota dari Amerika Utara, empat wali kota dari Amerika Latin, tujuh wali kota dari Eropa, dua wali kota dari Australasia, dan dua wali kota dari Afrika.

Yayasan ini mengundang masyarakat dunia untuk memberikan suara atau dukungan mereka dalam survei ini. Pilihan yang bisa diberikan langsung melalui laman worldmayor.com ini harus disertai dengan komentar mengapa mereka memilih kandidat tersebut. Dan panitia akan memilih pemenang utama dengan dua pemenang runner-up.
Berikut adalah 5 Besar Peringkat Menurut Worldmayor.com :

Posisi Pertama
Iñaki Azkuna, Mayor of Bilbao, Spain

Iñaki Azkuna Urreta is a Spanish politician of the Basque Nationalist Party. He is the present mayor of the city of Bilbao, Biscay in the Basque Country

Posisi Kedua
Lisa Scaffidi, Mayor of Perth, Australia

Lisa Scaffidi is the first female lord mayor of Perth, Western Australia. Scaffidi won the seat in the October 2007 council elections following the retirement of her predecessor, Peter Nattrass, after a record twelve years in the position.

Born: February 12, 1960 (age 52)

Spouse: Joe Scaffidi (m. 1992)

Education: Churchlands Primary School, Curtin University of Technology, Methodist Ladies' College, Perth

Posisi Ketiga
Joko Widodo (Jokowi), Mayor of Surakarta, Indonesia

Joko Widodo, better known by his nickname Jokowi, is an Indonesian politician and the current Governor of Jakarta. He was previously the Mayor of Surakarta. Wikipedia

Born: June 21, 1961 (age 51), Surakarta

Education: Gadjah Mada University

Party: Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle

Posisi Ke Empat
Régis Labeaume, Mayor of Québec City, Canada

 

Régis Labeaume is a Canadian businessman, writer and politician, currently serving as mayor of Quebec City. Labeaume was elected on December 2, 2007 in a special election following the death of Andrée Boucher. 

Born: May 2, 1956 (age 56), Roberval

Posisi Ke Lima
John F Cook, Mayor of El Paso, USA

Born February 27, 1946; Brooklyn, New York) is an American teacher, businessman, veteran, civic leader, and member of the Paso Del Norte Group. Cook has been Mayor of El Paso, Texas since defeating incumbent Joe Wardy in June 2005, and was reelected in 2009 to a second four-year term.^[1] Due to the City Charter's term limits clause Cook will not be eligible for a third term in 2013.



*) Sumber : wikipedia.org, worldmayor.com


Posisi Sepuluh Besar Walikota Terbaik 2012

Rank	Mayor	City	Country
1	Iñaki Azkuna	Bilbao	Spain
2	Lisa Scaffidi	Perth	Australia
3	Joko Widodo	Surakarta	Indonesia
4	Régis Labeaume	Québec City	Canada
5	John F Cook	El Paso	USA
6	Park Wan-su	Changwon City	South Korea
7	Len Brown	Auckland	New Zealand
8	Edgardo Pamintuan	Angeles City	Philippines
9	Mouhib Khatir	Zeralda	Algeria
10	Alfonso Sánchez Garza	Matamoros	Mexico