ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — Less than 24 hours after being censured by the Borough Council, Mayor Mario Kranjac says he plans to seek re-election this fall, according to a report on Fios 1 News.

During an on-air phone interview Wednesday, Kranjac said, "We have Democrats on council who should learn how to work together for the benefit of the people and not their party and that's my role," he said. "It's to steer them in that direction, and I think we'll make some progress."

No formal paperwork has been filed yet for the re-election bid, and Kranjac did not immediately return calls for comment.

Kranjac was elected mayor in 2015, after coming to prominence as a proponent of a public referendum on high-rise development. The borough had been mired in dispute over LG Electronics' plan to build a 143-foot-tall headquarters on the Palisades. The building was later scaled back to 70 feet.

He took some fire — but also won praise — after he ordered the removal of the name of the late Democratic Mayor Joseph Parisi Sr. from the municipal building in 2017. Similarly, his decision to remove a monument to Councilman Ilan Plawker was met with vocal debate on both sides of the aisle before the council voted to overturn it last year.

Earlier this year, Kranjac took the new Democratic-majority council to court, alleging that they had overstepped their authority with bylaws that "illegally usurp" his role.

In his complaint, Kranjac claimed council members Ellen Park, Edward Aversa, Gloria Oh, Jimmy Song and Deborah Tsabari are trying to “exceed their authority as Borough Council members, and improperly and illegally usurp the role properly occupied and executed by the mayor.”

He later withdrew his motion without prejudice but has since refiled it, adding former borough attorney Al Wunsch, Borough Clerk/Administrator Lisette Duffy and the borough's special counsel, Jeffrey Surenian. This second complaint took issue with the settlement with former Police Chief Michael Cioffi as well as his alleged freeze-out on the borough's affordable housing litigation.

Kranjac was censured by the council Tuesday after allegedly threatening physical violence against the borough attorney during a previous meeting.

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