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Plaid Cymru will seek to form minority Welsh government, leader says
Plaid won 43 seats and will seek support to form a government after Labour lost power for the first time since devolution.
- Rhun ap Iorwerth said Plaid Cymru will try to form a minority government in Wales after a historic election.
- Plaid Cymru won the largest group in the Senedd with 43 MSs but did not achieve a majority.
- Ap Iorwerth declared he plans to run to become the next First Minister of Wales, potentially the first from Plaid Cymru to hold this position.
- He expressed eagerness to quickly move towards the First Minister vote and start governing swiftly.
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Plaid Cymru ends 100 years of Labour domination in Wales
In Wales, the results were even more bleak for Labour, with Plaid Cymru ending 100 years of Labour rule. All the seats in the Welsh Senedd have been counted, Plaid Cymru has 43 seats, Reform UK has 34, while Labour drops to just 9. Plaid Cymru’s leader Rhun ap Iowerth hailed the results as a new beginning and said his party will seek to form a minority government.
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Plaid Cymru will seek to form minority Welsh government, leader says
Rhun ap Iorwerth said no Prime Minister ‘can cast Wales aside’.
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