{"id":297998,"date":"2025-07-28T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297998\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:18:15","slug":"open-meeting-with-first-minister-hopeful-rhun-ap-iorwerth-to-be-held-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297998\/","title":{"rendered":"Open meeting with First Minister hopeful Rhun ap Iorwerth to be held on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Wrexham.com &gt; News\n              <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Posted:<\/strong> Mon 28th Jul 2025 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/rhun-840x507.jpg\" alt=\"Wrexham.com for people living in or visiting the Wrexham area\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Election season is well underway ahead of the Senedd election in May, with Plaid Cymru kicking off a \u2018leaders tour\u2019 in Wrexham.<\/p>\n<p>Plaid Cymru leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, is holding an open meeting on Thursday at 6pm in the Maesgwyn Hall.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t           &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t         &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Plaid Cymru say such open meetings will be a \u201ckey part\u201d of their election campaign, \u201c\u2026giving people and communities across Wales the chance to have their say on key issues and discuss Rhun ap Iorwerth\u2019s vision for a fairer, more ambitious Wales\u201d, and as is common across parties they wish to have a \u2018conversation\u2019 with voters to deliver \u2018real change\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of the event, First Minister hopeful Mr ap Iorwerth said that \u201cmore people are turning to Plaid Cymru\u2019s hopeful vision\u201d pointing to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Senedd_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent polling<\/a> which places Plaid Cymru and Reform as doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Rhun ap Iorwerth MS said, \u201cOver the coming months, I will be travelling to all parts of Wales \u2013 north, south, east, west and everywhere in between \u2013 to engage with communities and hear their ideas about what a fairer, more ambitious Wales looks like to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext year\u2019s Senedd election offers Wales a serious opportunity to elect a government focused on delivering for Wales. More and more people are turning to Plaid Cymru\u2019s hopeful vision \u2013 real change can only happen if we build it together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile other parties take Wales for granted, offering more of the same having let our communities down for years on end, or see our communities as just another photo op; Plaid Cymru is the only party taking its positive message to the whole of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you want to help build real change for our communities, come along and start a conversation with Plaid Cymru. It\u2019s time to give Wales the fresh starts it truly needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the new electoral system Wrexham is now part of Fflint Wrecsam, and parties have lists of candidates in a numbered order.<\/p>\n<p>Plaid Cymru lead candidate for Fflint Wrecsam, Carrie Harper said: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen lots of people in Wrecsam switching to Plaid Cymru in recent years so it\u2019s fitting to have Rhun\u2019s leader tour of Wales start here. He\u2019s already visited the constituency a number of times and understands the key issues we\u2019re working with people on locally such as the Local Development Plan, access to dentistry and the challenges within our NHS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople want a plan to transform Wales and that is exactly what Plaid Cymru are putting on the table. I\u2019m really looking forward to the meeting on Thursday evening as it will be an opportunity for people locally to discuss the vision Plaid has face to face with the leader of the party. Taking that time to listen and connect with voters is what makes Plaid different. We\u2019re the only party who will put Wales first every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below, polling <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Senedd_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graph<\/a> at the time of writing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wrexham.com\/?attachment_id=274609\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-274609 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"369\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter  size-large img-responsive  wp-image-274609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/polling-840x369.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spotted something? Got a story? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/wrexham.com\/news\/mailto:news@wrexham.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News@Wrexham.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Get notified about <br \/>news from across North Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham.com &gt; News Posted: Mon 28th Jul 2025 Election season is well underway ahead of the Senedd election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-297998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114929880884653690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}