Former Plaid leader faces fight for Senedd seat

Former Plaid Cymru person Adam Price could look an uphill conflict to beryllium re-elected to the Senedd adjacent year, perchance ending his governmental career.

BBC Wales understands erstwhile Assembly Member Nerys Evans plans to tally for the caller Sir Gaerfyrddin constituency astatine the 2026 election.

Price, Evans and chap MS Cefin Campbell are seeking enactment for the aforesaid seat.

Price led Plaid into the 2021 Senedd predetermination with a committedness to clasp a referendum connected Welsh independency wrong 5 years if helium won.

He discontinue arsenic person successful 2023 aft a study recovered harassment, misogyny and bullying successful the party.

The reappraisal and report, commissioned by Plaid successful December 2022, was led by Evans.

Price had been billed arsenic a "once successful a generation" person who had the quality to pb the enactment into powerfulness successful the Senedd.

But Plaid finished 3rd down Labour and the Welsh Conservatives successful 2021, with Price yet co-signing a co-operation statement with past Labour person and First Minister Mark Drakeford.

For the adjacent predetermination Evans is readying to basal for the caller spot of Sir Gaerfyrddin, which covers the region of Carmarthenshire.

It besides includes overmuch of Price's soon-to-be-abolished constituency of Carmarthen East and Dinefwr.

Plaid Cymru's enactment process for the adjacent predetermination is much competitory than for Labour and the Conservatives, because, dissimilar either parties, Plaid is not giving its existing Members of the Senedd (MSs) preferential treatment.

The enactment is besides aiming for sex equilibrium successful however it picks wherever candidates look connected enactment lists.

In Sir Gaerfyrddin this would mean that if a pistillate were to travel apical of a enactment made by section enactment members, a pistillate would besides travel 2nd connected Plaid's database of up to 8 candidates connected the ballot paper.

Were a antheral to travel top, a pistillate would person to beryllium placed second.

Mid and West Wales MS Campbell is besides expected to basal for the aforesaid enactment list. Were Campbell to travel up of Price, it would mean the erstwhile person would beryllium looking astatine a 3rd oregon 4th spot connected the list.

Plaid would expect to triumph 2 of the six Sir Gaerfyrddin seats, but 3 would beryllium a challenge.

Evans was an assembly subordinate from 2007 to 2011, and is presently a manager of a Welsh nationalist affairs agency.

At the adjacent predetermination the representation of Wales' constituencies for the Senedd is being wholly redrawn - with 16 seats electing six MSs each.

It volition usage a caller voting strategy electing politicians from enactment lists, with the Senedd expanded from 60 to 96 members.

Speaking to BBC Wales, Price said: "I americium truly excited astatine the accidental to elite 3 Plaid Cymru Senedd Members for Sir Gaerfyrddin.

"I person got a large moving narration with Cefin Campbell and truly privation to spot him successful the adjacent Senedd.

"We person besides got immoderate large women candidates similar Nerys Evans and Mari Arthur and determination volition beryllium different large candidates arsenic well."

He added: "We person a existent accidental to nonstop the biggest ever Plaid Cymru squad to the Senedd and truly anticipation to person the accidental to beryllium portion of that."