Calangute sarpanch election today
MAPUSA: Annie Coelho is all set to be elected as the fifth sarpanch of Calangute Panchayat on Monday after the previous sarpanch Philomena Fernandes resigned on completing a year in office.
Annie Coelho represents Khobravaddo in Calangute.
The post of sarpanch is reserved for women in Calangute. But with former sarpanch and senior panch member, Joseph Sequeira calling the shots in Calangute Panchayat, women panch members are rotated as sarpanchas as per a mutual power-sharing understanding between the members.
“The election to the post of sarpanch will be taken up on Monday. Coelho will be the new sarpanch of Calangute,” Sequeira told The Goan.
In the current five-year term of the panchayat, Ana-Marie D'Souza was the first sarpanch, followed by Geeta Parab, Pascoala Clara Fernandes and Philomena Fernandes. Sources disclosed that Annie Coelho will remain as the sarpanch for the next six months and then pass on the baton to her colleague Reshma Kalangutkar to complete the five-year term.
