Resignation of the mayor

Today the mayor of our town tendered his resignation to the chairman of the town assembly.
The assembly will hold the meeting and discuss it tomorrow.
The mayor was disappointed with the result of voting on August 22 about the union with other cities, because he had wanted to unite.
More than half of the voter was against the union.

So he decided to resign and run in the coming election again to ask the people of this town about the union.

To hear this news on TV today, I was surprised.