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Vaughan Gething is set to become Wales’s next first minister after winning the Labour leadership race.
Mr Gething, 50, will also become the first black man to hold the post, and the first black leader of any European country.
He is expected to be confirmed as the country’s first minister on Wednesday when a vote will be held in the Senedd.
He will succeed Mark Drakeford, who has held the position since 2018.
Mr Gething beat his only rival, the education minister Jeremy Miles, winning 51.7% of the vote.
After the result was announced in a lecture hall at Cardiff University, Mr Gething said: “Today, we turn a page in the book of our nation’s history. A history we write together.
“Not just because I have the honour of becoming the first black leader in any European country – but because the generational dial has jumped too.
“Devolution is not something I have had to get used to or adapt to or apologise for. Devolution – Welsh solutions to Welsh problems – that’s in my blood. It’s what I’ve always known.”
UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer hailed Mr Gething’s election as “an historic moment that speaks to the progress and values of modern-day Wales”.
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