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Vaughan Gething, currently Wales' Economy Minister, narrowly defeated Jeremy Miles in the election to become the new leader of the Welsh Labor Party. He was the new First Minister of Wales and the first black leader of a European country.
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Gething was born in Zambia in 1974 to a white Welsh father and a black Zambian mother, and when he was two years old his family moved to Monmouthshire, Wales, but his father faced job discrimination and moved to England. He said he was forced to move to the set. Because of his family's ethnicity.
He attended Aberystwyth University and Cardiff University in Wales, worked as a trade union solicitor at Thompsons Solicitors, and became the first black president of both the Welsh Trades Union Congress and the Welsh National Union of Students.
According to the Guardian, he joined the Labor Party at the age of 17, inspired by the story of Nelson Mandela.
He has a long involvement in Welsh Government, first joining the Welsh Assembly (Senedd) in 2011. In 2013 he became the first black minister in a developing country in the UK. He then served as Wales' health minister during the coronavirus pandemic and more recently as economy minister.
He narrowly won the Welsh Labor leadership election with 51.7 per cent of the vote and vowed in a speech on Saturday to tackle Wales' cost of living crisis and the challenges plaguing the country's farmers, health and education system. , according to Politico.
Mr Gething was confirmed by the Welsh Parliament on Wednesday, making him the fifth first Welsh minister since the Senedd was formed in 1999, according to the Associated Press.
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“Today we turn the pages of this nation's history book, a history we will write together, not only because I have the honor of being the first black leader of a European nation. , because it also crossed generational boundaries.'' Gething Said In a victory speech.
Main background
Currently, three of Britain's four major governments are led by non-white leaders, with Rishi Sunak, an Indian-origin, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Humza Yousaf, a Pakistani-origin, as First Minister of Scotland.
Contra
Mr. Gething's campaign sparked controversy after it was revealed that he had received large cash donations from environmental groups led by individuals previously indicted for environmental crimes. But Mr Gething defended the donation, saying he would “strictly” comply with all the rules and saying: “It is clear that nothing has changed in my determination to have stronger environmental regulations.”
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