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Benoeming bevestigd door plenaire stemming in de Senedd nadat de partij in de verkiezingen van vorige week een einde maakte aan 100 jaar Labour-bestuur

• Rhun ap Iorwerth zegt dat hij hoopt samen te werken met andere partijen en de Britse regering onder druk zal zetten voor extra bevoegdheden • UK politics live – laatste updates • De leider van Plaid Cymru, Rhun ap Iorwerth, heeft beloofd een stabiele minderheidsregering in de Senedd te vormen en stelde dat hij zal streven naar volwassen samenwerking met alle oppositiepartijen.

Rhun ap Iowerth hoopt dat het regeringsprogramma van zijn partij steun zal krijgen uit het hele Senedd. UK politics live – laatste updates. De leider van Plaid Cymru hoopt uiterlijk dinsdag First Minister van Wales te worden, nadat zijn partij een historische overwinning behaalde bij de Senedd-verkiezingen, waarbij Labour duidelijk werd verslagen en Reform UK werd tegengehouden. Plaid behaalde geen meerderheid in het Welsh parliament, maar Rhun ap Iorwerth zei zondag dat hij hoopt dat andere partijen met hem zullen samenwerken, en riep UK Labour op om Wales niet te straffen voor het resultaat. Lees verder...

First time Welsh nationalist party has enough support to run Wales, while also blocking momentum of Reform UKElection 2026 live: latest news updatesFull results from England, Scotland and WalesPlaid Cymru is on course to declare victory in the Welsh Senedd elections, a result that would simultaneously end nearly 30 years of Labour dominance in devolved politics in Wales and block the momentum of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.By early Friday evening, with 14 of 16 constituencies declared, the centre-left Welsh nationalist party appeared poised to win enough support to lead the nation, replacing Welsh Labour, which had won the largest vote share in every electoral contest in Wales for more than 100 years. Continue reading...

Polls suggest Reform could win most seats in Senedd election but party is unlikely to be able to form governmentUK politics live – latest updatesOn a sunny but cold evening in a shopping centre car park on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil, Reform UK supporters enjoyed free pizza and loud music as they waited for what the party leader, Nigel Farage, said was his last big speech before Thursday’s Welsh Senedd, Scottish parliament and English local elections.Reform could win the most seats under Wales’s new more proportional voting system but it is unlikely to be able to form a government, as other parties have ruled out going into coalition with it. Yet Farage’s outfit is the first rightwing party with a shot at winning in Wales since the 1850s. The surge in support for a party that got 1% of the vote in the last Senedd election is impossible to ignore. Continue reading...

Rhun ap Iorwerth launches party’s manifesto and says he is unconcerned by Reform UK threat in Welsh electionsUK politics live – latest updatesPlaid Cymru’s leader has promised “no more bending to Westminster’s will” as the nationalist party stands on the brink of taking office for the first time in next month’s Senedd elections.Speaking at Plaid Cymru’s manifesto launch in Wrexham on Thursday – chosen because of its football team, which has showcased Wales’s potential to the world – Rhun ap Iorwerth told a packed room of supporters there would be “no more toeing the London party line, no more defending the status quo and no more saying no to Wales”. Continue reading...