Former Senator Walter Roban was unveiled as the Progressive Labour Party candidate for Pembroke East today.

Mr. Roban, 41, a trust review officer for the Bank of Bermuda, has been a member of the party for 20 years and helped mastermind the PLP’s 1998 election victory.

He takes over from PLP stalwart Ottiwell Simmons who took 82 percent of the votes in the 2003 election. Mr. Roban will face the United Bermuda Party’s Sean Pitcher in an election which must be called by January 2009.

Mr. Roban told a press conference there was a need to identify more green space in the densely-populated seat and he called for a greater Police presence because of worries over drug crime.

Premier Ewart Brown said: “Walter Roban arrived at this point in his political life the old fashioned way - he earned it.”