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Plaid Election Fall-out

Posted by Tom Bodden on May 10, 2007 5:09 PM | 

A post election de-briefing session for Plaid Cymru in North Wales provides the opportunty for some 'get-it-off-your-chest' therapy tonight.
Some supporters of ex-Plaid leader Dafydd Wigley are angry that he failed to return to frontline politics via the compexities of the Assembly PR system.
And elected AM for North Wales Janet Ryder may be poised to face a backlash.

It is even being suggested that Ms Ryder should step aside to allow Mr Wigley a seat in the National Assembly.
That seems unlikely given central party backing for the former shadow education minister for what was, after all, the result of the democratic process.
Plaid’s rules insist that a woman must be the lead candidate in regional ‘top up’ lists although the former AM and MP was the clear first choice of party members in the selection ballot.
A story in the Welsh language magazine Golwg precipitated an internal row amid claims that Ms Ryder may have failed to show unambiguous support for another Plaid candidate during the campaign so as not to water down Plaid's chances on the regional list.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in tonight's gathering in Llandudno.
UPDATE: One fly on the wall tells me of an anti-climax. The meeting of four candidates and party workers was 'exceptionally boring' and discussed issues as controversial as the siting of campaign posters.
Methinks this issue is going away already, as least publicly.


 

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Welcome to ‘Gog in the Bay’, the occasional diary of a political journalist. My name is Tom Bodden, the Welsh Affairs Correspondent of The Daily Post, which is North Wales’ best selling newspaper. I am based full-time at the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff Bay.

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