From Maverick to political establishment

Former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Elis-Thomas, Who died at the age of 78For a member of the political establishment, he left a Mavric.

During a career in which the 12 -year Welsh was included as the first presiding officer of the assembly, equivalent to the Chairman of the House of Commons, he was never away from controversy and criticism.

Sometimes criticism comes from his own party, especially when he accepted a colleague and attacked the nationalism of Welsh language.

Eventually he would leave the plaid Simru and sit as an independent member in Cardiff Bay.

Some people would not have liked the way they had placed an office on controversial subjects that demanded neutrality.

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Dafyd Elis-Thomas was born in 1946 in Carmarthen, and Llanrwst was educated in Grammar School and Bangor University.

He led the youth section of Plaid Cymru and campaigned against the investment of Prince Charles at Cernarfon Castle in 1969.

In 1974, he was one of the three Welsh nationalists selected to the House of Commons with Ginfor Evans and Daffid Vigley.

At the age of 27, he was the youngest member of that Parliament – the “child of the House”.

The other defidit defeated him in a competition to lead the plaid, when a giant at the party was standing down in Sri Evans, 1981.

The battle for succession was a fight to decide whether the plaid deafed was settled from the left or conducted a more liberal course under the daffid vigley.

Following the resignation of Mr. Vigley, he was elected party president in October 1984, defeating the party’s traditionalist wing candidate Daffid Ivan.

Under the leadership of Lord Elis-Thomas, Plads strongly supported the miners in their 1984 strike and won the third seat in Parliament in the 1987 election.

He stood as an MP in 1992 and was the same year as a cross-Bench colleague, despite his party’s opposition as a cross-Bench colleague.

He served as the Chairman of the Welsh Language Board from 1994-99, which was a Plaid Cymru Assembly Member for Meirionydd Nant Conwy before his election.

He served as the presiding officer of the Welsh Vidhan Sabha, which is now called Center from 1999 to 2011, but Bhumika did not stop making headlines with her vocal views.

He collided with bitterness in 2000 with the then first secretary Alun Michael, which in 2000 on the procedures around a no -confidence vote in dealing with Mr. Michael’s European funding.

He was an early lawyer for separation between the Legislative Assembly and his executive – a division that was eventually implemented in the government of Wales Act 2006.

He ignited the fierce debate in 2001 when he said that there was an anti -English spirit within the nationalism of Welsh language and there was no such thing as Welsh -speaking heartland.

He was known for a memorable turn of the phrase, such as it takes into a row where members of the assembly sit in the room: “What’s the matter of getting up in the morning, cleaning my teeth, washing and shaving if you work if you work Go to an institution.

He pushed to a more powerful assembly for the deviation of policing and broadcasting control.

He interfered with a spat about developing powers on housing policy between Westminster and Cardiff Bay, accusing some Welsh MPs of “acting contrary to the spirit of deviation”.

Not all appreciated his style. Despite having a neighbor office during the second assembly, he and former Deputy Chairman John Marake barely talked about a departure officer after rowing.

He called the members of the assembly to boycott the meeting with the Israeli ambassador, which was organized by the only Muslim AM of the assembly.

In 2011, he provoked a fierce response from labor and conservatives when he said that the Wales office should be scattered in view of the referendum to give the powers of the assembly to make direct laws.

Shortly thereafter, he stated that he would enter the competition to make the outgoing plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones successful.

Twenty years after evacuating the role of the party president, it was usually a provocative step from one of the most colored characters of Welsh politics.

The competition was won by Lean Wood, which collided in the direction of Ellis-Thomas Plaid Simru.

In 2016, he left the party to sit as an independent member in Cardiff Bay.

He said that it was because Plaid Simru was not “serious” about participating in the Welsh government led by Labor.

He was later appointed Deputy Minister for Tourism, Sports and Culture in that government under the leadership of Carvin Jones. He left Sendd in 2021.

Lord Elis-Thomas leaves a widow, Maiir Parry Jones and three sons from the previous marriage.