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Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales
Leader Leanne Wood
Chair Dafydd Trystan Davies
Chief Executive Gareth Clubb
Honorary President The Lord Wigley
Founded 5 August 1925; 91 years ago (1925-08-05)
Headquarters Tŷ Gwynfor, Marine Chambers, Anson Court, Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff, Wales
Youth wing Plaid Cymru Youth
Membership  (2016) Increase 8,273
Ideology Welsh nationalism
Civic nationalism
Regionalism
Democratic socialism
Social democracy
Environmentalism
Pro-Europeanism
Political position Centre-left to Left-wing
European affiliation European Free Alliance
International affiliation None
European Parliament group Greens/EFA
Colours Green
House of Commons (Welsh seats)
3 / 40
House of Lords
1 / 805
European Parliament (Welsh seats)
1 / 4
National Assembly for Wales
11 / 60
Local government in Wales
174 / 1,264
Police and Crime Commissioner
2 / 4
Website
www.plaid.cymru

Plaid Cymru (Welsh pronunciation: [plaɪd ˈkəmri]; English pronunciation: /ˌpld ˈkʌmri/; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a social-democratic political party in Wales advocating for Welsh independence from the United Kingdom within the European Union.

Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966. Plaid Cymru by 2012 had 1 of 4 Welsh seats in the European Parliament, 3 of 40 Welsh seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 11 of 60 seats in the National Assembly for Wales, and 206 of 1,264 principal local authority councillors. Plaid is a member of the European Free Alliance.

Plaid Cymru's goals as set out in its constitution are:

In September 2008, a senior Plaid Cymru assembly member spelled out her party's continuing support for an independent Wales. The Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs, Elin Jones, kicked off Plaid's annual conference by pledging to uphold the goal of making Wales a European Union member state. She told the delegates in Aberystwyth that the party would continue its commitment to independence under the coalition with the Welsh Labour Party.


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