Plaid Cymru leadership Political heavyweight Adam Price today declared he was backing Leanne Wood’s campaign to become leader of Plaid Cymru.
The former Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP, joins Jonathan Edwards, his successor in the constituency, and Assembly Members Bethan Jenkins and Lindsay Whittle among prominent party members who have already endorsed Leanne Wood’s candidature.
Adam Price, a former Welsh Politician and Campaigning Politician of the Year, said that if Plaid Cymru was to become the biggest party in the National Assembly it needed to win seats in traditional Labour held constituencies in south and north Wales. Leanne Wood was the best placed candidate to do that, he said.
“I am supporting Leanne because she is the candidate best-placed to address the real deficit problem in politics today: the deficit in jobs and investment, the deficit of hope and aspiration, the deficit of passion, principle and conviction,” said Mr Price
“It’s time for a new generation of leaders, in Wales and in the world. The ideas and institutions of the 20th century have failed us. In Wales they have left us with a legacy of inter-generational hopelessness that should make us angry but we’ve somehow learned to accept.
“We need a genuine alternative. And that to me encapsulates Leanne’s two biggest strengths: she is genuine, what you see and what you hear is what you get – and she is an alternative to the ‘small c’ conservatism of much of contemporary Wales. Creative in her thinking, and passionately committed to economic justice, Leanne is everything Welsh Labour’s stale and sterile leadership is not.
Leanne Wood said: “I’m thrilled that Adam Price has endorsed my campaign for the Plaid Cymru leadership. Adam had a distinguished record as an MP and is hugely admired, both within Plaid Cymru and outside, for his work strongly opposing the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.”
