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submitted 3 months ago by Navarian@lemm.ee to c/wales@lemm.ee

The vote of no confidence passed in First Minister Vaughan Gething has led to tension between members of the Senedd Labour group and the party’s whips office at Westminster, we have been told.

Mr Gething lost the vote earlier this month when two Labour MSs – Hannah Blythyn and Lee Waters abstained on the motion that was supported by all three opposition parties. He has, however, refused to resign.

The motion, moved by the Welsh Conservatives, condemned Mr Gething for accepting donations totalling £200,000 to his Welsh Labour leadership campaign from a businessman who received two suspended jail sentences for illegally dumping toxic sludge in the protected landscape of the Gwent Levels.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

I didn't even know that one could not resign in Wales after losing a no-confidence vote.

Is resignation considered optional under Welsh law, or does this represent a constitutional crisis?

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