Voters will punish Premier Anna Bligh for setting back council election plans around the state, the Local Government Association of Queensland says.
Ms Bligh has called the state poll for March 24, meaning local elections that had been set down for March 31 won't be held until late April or early May.
The premier decided on the election timing after the state's floods inquiry sought more time to examine further claims Wivenhoe Dam had been mismanaged during last year's disaster.
She says Queenslanders need to see the inquiry's final report, now to be delivered three weeks late on March 16, because it could contain findings that might affect the way they vote in both polls.
She said there was no reason to delay the state poll further beyond the third anniversary of her 2009 election win.
LGAQ president Paul Bell said Ms Bligh's decision was an utter disgrace.
He will meet with Attorney-General and Minister for Local Government Paul Lucas on Wednesday to discuss the move.
Mr Bell said there had always been concerns the state election would clash with council elections and prevent meaningful engagement between council candidates and communities.
He said local government had not been consulted about pushing back council elections.
'It's a complete abuse of the government's power,' he told AAP.
'It's just another example of this government tearing up previously agreed commitments. We've got a wheelie bin full of these broken promises from this government.
'In June last year the premier wrote to me and indicated that March was the date for local government,' he said, explaining concerns that holding council elections any later would affect the ability of new councils to develop their annual budgets in time for the new financial year.
Mr Bell said he'd been receiving emails and text messages from mayors around the state, saying Ms Bligh's actions were totally inappropriate.
'This is the action of a political party that has been paralysed by the angry glare of an electorate.
'This action will alienate not only present councillors and those working towards local government, but also the community.
'The only thing the government can be sure of is that the electorate may now have to put its baseball bats down for a small time, but they will be picking them back up when the election is under way.'
Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk also condemned the premier's decision.
'To suit her own political agenda, the premier has now disrupted the holding of 73 council elections,' he said.
'It is also a signal of what scant regard the premier has held for local government that she would use councils as her political plaything ...'
He said the premier had broken her promise that the March 31 council elections would not be moved to suit her election timetable.
