{"id":953577,"date":"2026-05-11T23:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953577\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:07:18","slug":"rhun-ap-iorwerth-expected-to-become-wales-first-minister-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953577\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhun ap Iorwerth expected to become Wales&#8217; first minister on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-politics-52442634\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Members of the Senedd<\/a> will be asked one after another who they think should be first minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ap Iorwerth has enough votes to take the job and there are not enough available for anyone else, such as Reform&#8217;s Dan Thomas, to challenge him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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&#8217;s block with the Greens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the roll call ap Iorwerth will need to be sworn in by a High Court judge before he becomes first minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday it was not clear if the vote would go ahead, because of uncertainty over who will take the deputy presiding officer job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the party does not nominate someone it would delay ap Iorwerth becoming first minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plaid will hold a meeting of their 43-member Senedd group on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Senedd will be asked one after another who they think should be first minister. Ap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-953577","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\/116558459475466998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953577","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=953577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}