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In December 2021, the Welsh Labour government and Plaid Cymru signed a three-year co-operation agreement, where the two parties agreed to work together in 46 policy areas. . The agreement was not a coalition or confidence and supply agreement; Plaid Cymru remained in opposition but appointed advisers to offices of the Welsh Governm
Plaid Cymru (English: / p l aɪ d ˈ k ʌ m r i / PLYDE KUM-ree; [31] Welsh: [plaid ˈkəmri], lit. ' Party of Wales '; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left to left-wing, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
Joint Green-Plaid candidates stood in seven seats at the 1992 General Election, Blaenau Gwent, Ceredigion and Pembroke North, Islwyn, Monmouth, Newport West, Newport East and Torfaen. [5] In Ceredigion and Pembroke North, Cynog Dafis of Plaid Cymru was elected as a joint Plaid-Green MP, with a 14.1% increase on his vote at the previous election.
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Plaid Cymru ruled itself out of joining the Conservatives in a coalition on an ideological basis. Plaid Cymru and Labour eventually formed the government under the terms of their One Wales agreement. [6] As a result of the agreement, the Conservatives, the largest opposition party, became the Official Opposition in the Welsh Assembly.
Plaid Cymru's threat in the industrial heartland fell away in the 1970s, but it and the Conservatives gained ground in Welsh-speaking and coastal Wales respectively, where Labour's roots were shallower. By the 1979 general election, the Labour Party in Wales held 22 of the 36 parliamentary seats, albeit with a 48 per cent share of the vote. [35]
As the Plaid Cymru youth wing, Plaid Ifanc shares many of the wider party's goals. However they aim as a youth wing to abide by the beliefs of their young members. At its 2015 National Conference in Aberystwyth, it adopted the following principles: [2] National Liberation. The main aim of Plaid Ifanc is to fight for independence for Wales as a ...
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