Rhun ap Iorwerth expected to become Wales’ first minister on Tuesday

Members of the Senedd will be asked one after another who they think should be first minister.

Ap Iorwerth has enough votes to take the job and there are not enough available for anyone else, such as Reform’s Dan Thomas, to challenge him.

It is not known what the Welsh Conservatives will do during the roll call but even if they supported Thomas he could not defeat Plaid’s block with the Greens.

After the roll call ap Iorwerth will need to be sworn in by a High Court judge before he becomes first minister.

On Monday it was not clear if the vote would go ahead, because of uncertainty over who will take the deputy presiding officer job.

But a Plaid Cymru spokesperson has said that the party will put someone forward, but as of Monday night it was not known who that might be.

When the presiding officer is from the opposition, as both Irranca-Davies and Davies are, then the deputy presiding officer must be from the government.

If the party does not nominate someone it would delay ap Iorwerth becoming first minister.

Plaid will hold a meeting of their 43-member Senedd group on Tuesday morning.