Mayors in most Federation cities changed frequently. A mayor's "enemies" were not only the perpetually hungry, greedy masses at the bottom.
There were also the city councilors who were constantly waiting to replace the mayor.
In some cities, the conflicts between the mayor and the councilors were completely out in the open. The councilors would attack the mayors' policies and decisions to damage their prestige and raise their own standing among the people.
Some mayors could serve for more than a decade, which was already considered a very long tenure in the Federation. Ms. Tracy's father had managed to remain in office in this city for more than twenty years, and his ability alone was definitely not enough to explain it! Twenty years was long enough for many citizens to grow tired of their mayor.
As long as he failed to fulfill some of his promises, the citizens would stop voting for him!
Of course, his ability to remain mayor for so long also had a great deal to do with his younger brother. There were many believers in the city, and with the influence of the regional patriarch, holding on to the mayor's position for a long time was not difficult.
Even so, the city still needed to develop, and it also needed... large corporations to move in.
To capitalists, whether a region had development potential actually had little to do with the region itself.
That statement sounded somewhat backwards, even a little self-contradictory, but it was precisely the most truthful aspect of the matter.
Whether entrepreneurs were willing to invest large amounts of money in a region depended on whether the person governing that region stood on their side.
To put it simply, even a city with a terrible environment, poor resources, or some other unfriendly condition—in short,