The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party that consists of various regionalist,separatist and ethnic minority political parties in Europe. Member parties advocate either for full political independence and sovereignty,or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region. The party has generally limited its membership to centre-left and left-wing parties;therefore,only a fraction of European regionalist parties are members of the EFA.
Plaid Cymru is a centre-left to left-wing,Welsh nationalist political party in Wales,committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
Eurig Wyn was a Welsh politician and reporter. He was a Plaid Cymru Member of the European Parliament for Wales from 1999 to 2004,when he lost his seat,in part due to a reduction of the number of seats allocated to Wales.
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS &OP with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union,part of the Socialist Group. Her family name is Ulatowska,which she has changed after marriage with her husband.
Wales was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 4 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation,until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
There are four types of elections in Wales:elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,elections to the devolved Senedd,local elections to community councils and the 22 principal areas,and the Police and Crime Commissioner elections. In addition there are by-elections for each aforementioned election. Elections are held on Election Day,which is conventionally a Thursday. Since the passing of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 for UK general elections,all four types of elections are held after fixed periods,though early elections to the UK parliament can occur in certain situations,with Senedd elections being postponed to avoid elections to the UK parliament and Senedd coinciding with each other.
Leanne Wood is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from March 2012 to September 2018,and served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) from 2003 to 2021.
Plaid Cymru originated in 1925 after a meeting held at that year's National Eisteddfod in Pwllheli,Caernarfonshire. Representatives from two Welsh nationalist groups founded the previous year,Byddin Ymreolwyr Cymru and Y Mudiad Cymreig,agreed to meet and discuss the need for a "Welsh party". The party was founded as Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru,the National Party of Wales,and attracted members from the left,right and centre of the political spectrum,including both monarchists and republicans. Its principal aims include the promotion of the Welsh language and the political independence of the Welsh nation.
Jacqueline Kay Swinburne,Baroness Swinburne,is a British politician and life peer. She was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales between 2009 and 2019,representing the Conservative Party,and became a member of the House of Lords in 2023. She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities from 1 March 2024 for Baroness Penn as a Minister on Leave.
Ulrike Lunacek is an Austrian politician who served as State Secretary for Cultural Affairs in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in 2020. She is a member of the Austrian Green party The Greens –The Green Alternative,part of the European Green Party.
Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska is a Polish politician and MEP. She was the Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration in Poland (2008–2009).
Derek Vaughan is a Welsh Labour politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales between 2009 and 2019.
Franziska Maria "Ska" Keller is a German politician and member of the European Parliament for the Germany constituency. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens,part of the European Green Party.
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel,often officially referred as simply Viola von Cramon is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously represented Lower Saxony in the Bundestag,the German federal parliament,from 2009 to 2013.
Syd Morgan is a Welsh nationalist politician.
Angelika Rosa Mlinar is an Austrian and Slovenian politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 until 2019. She is a member of NEOS –The New Austria,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She belongs to the minority of Carinthian Slovenes. She is a distinguished fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations.
Elizabeth Saville Roberts is a Welsh politician,serving as the group leader of Plaid Cymru in the House of Commons since 2017. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dwyfor Meirionnydd since the 2015 general election.
Željana Zovko is a Bosnian and Croatian diplomat and politician. Since 2016,she has been serving as a member of the European Parliament from Croatia.
Kerstin Westphal is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Łukasz Marcin Kohut is a Polish politician of the New Left party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections.
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