PANJIM: Rohit Monserrate will be re-elected as Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) Mayor as the elections to elect both, the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor will be held at 11 am on Wednesday, March 30.
Only one nomination each was received from Rohit Monserrate for the Mayor’s post and from ward 25 councillor Sanjeev Naik for the Deputy Mayor’s post. Since there are no other contestants the duo are likely to be declared elected unopposed after scrutiny of their nominations.
It is learnt that the current Deputy Mayor Vasant Aghshikar declined to re-contest the election paving way for his colleagues to contest.
As per the CCP Act, the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor are to be elected every year. In the CCP elections held in March last year, the panel supported by Cabinet Minister Atanasio `Babush’ Monserrate had swept the elections by winning 25 seats in the 30-Member Corporation.
