Vaughan Gething is set to become the new first minister of Wales after winning the Welsh Labour leadership contest.
Mr Gething, 49, has been chosen as the party's next leader, succeeding Mark Drakeford, who has held the position since 2018.He had been up against Jeremy Miles, the current minister for education and Welsh language.Mr Gething, who will also be the first black man to hold the post, is expected to be declared the country's fifth leader since the National Assembly for Wales, now called the Senedd, was established in 1999.
"But he was the right leader at the right time during the pandemic and it is true that we will be forever in his debt to his forensic approach to public policy. "Not a lot is said about a heart that went into it to the deep and unwavering duty to defend Wales, as a community, as a people, as a family of families."It came after Mr Drakeford, 69, announced in December last year he would be resigning.
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