By law, Akatsi South Municipal Assembly is the highest political, deliberative and executive authority in the district (Local Government Act, 1993, Act 462). Under it fall:

Office of the district assembly,
Office of the area council, and unit committee.
LI. No 1470 established the assembly on the 10th day of March 1989.
Elevated from a district to a municipality on the 5th October 2020 with LI 2420.

It has a maximum membership of fifty-four (54), comprising thirty-Six elected from thirty-six electoral areas and eighteen Municipal Assembly. 

Being a new Municipality, it lags behind in terms of infrastructure for effective implementation of its functions. The result is that some of the key departments needed to support the Assembly is not in place.