Please agree to our privacy policy to enable news listening. (Central News Agency, London, Comprehensive Foreign Reports on the 8th) The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that the British Labor Party lost power in the local elections in Wales today. This is the first time that the Labor Party has lost power since the establishment of local self-government councils in Wales in 1999. The Welsh National Party (Plaid Cymru) won the most seats. After all 96 seats were taken, the National Party of Wales won 43 seats, followed by the anti-immigration Reform Party (Reform UK) with 34 seats, and the Labor Party only won 9 seats, falling into third place. For the centre-left Labor Party, this is a major defeat in its traditional base. The Labor Party is not only the ruling party in the UK, it has also dominated Welsh politics for more than a century. Labour’s Welsh leader Eluned Morgan lost his seat and immediately announced his resignation as leader. She said: “This represents the end of a century-long era of victory for the Labor Party in Wales. The Labor Party must do a thorough soul-searching and understand the scale of the challenges we face.” Morgan also pointed out that the Labor Party led by Keir Starmer “needs to change direction”. Labor also suffered defeats in local elections in England and Scotland yesterday. Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of the National Party of Wales, said the election results showed the people of Wales wanted “a change of leadership”. The Welsh Assembly was established 27 years ago after the Labor government led by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair devolved powers such as health, transport and social policy from London to new local councils in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. (Compiled by: Xu Ruicheng) 1150509 Support the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every donation you make is a small amount of sponsorship to protect press freedom. Download the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to get the latest news in real time. The text, pictures and audio and video of this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.
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