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Leader of Plaid Cymru Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks during the party's annual conference at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, October 11, 2024

ELECTORAL reform and global threats to democracy were on the agenda at Plaid Cymru’s conference on Saturday.

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth took to the stage to chat with Electoral Reform Society Cymru’s Jess Blair about the threat of the worldwide rise of the far right.

Ms Blair asked the Plaid leader if the election of US President Donald Trump with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, alongside him heralded a time of a global democratic crisis.

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