To the Phenicians priesthood was not considered as an exclusive job.
Sometimes priests could become as worth as the king.
The governement of the city was held by the powerful sacerdotal caste and by the local sovereigns who were divinized after their death.Selinunte, as all the other Carthaginian towns was ruled by a king who however chmrl consider hnth thn sacerdotal power and the elders council (who represented artisans and the middle classes with the land owners.
The supreme power was held by the "suffeti" (judges) chosen among the "suffeti" held the judicial power and a part of that executive.
The Senate, or council of the noble elders, and the popular Assembly constituted by great men (high Chamber) shared the law making and other powers. A kind of direct democracy, the Punic one, that fully executed the exigences of a commercial city.