A top Welsh academic predicts Plaid Cymru to gain Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire on May 5th.
Analysis of the most recent poll of voting intentions for the National Assembly elections to elect a new Welsh Government suggest that a political earthquake could be on its way.
Professor Roger Scully states “Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire is now projected as a Plaid Cymru gain from the Conservatives.”
He adds: “Labour are currently running fourteen percentage points below where they were five years ago.”
Plaid Cymru’s Simon Thomas, the candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire said:
“This most recent poll shows it is a two horse race here between Plaid Cymru and the Tory incumbent. Labour has slid 14 per cent in their popularity since 2011. The Tories are at war on Europe and everything else it seems.
“I am shocked by this right wing Conservative government in Westminster threatening the support for disabled people, running down hard-working NHS staff and arguing over Europe.
“Labour has abandoned the people of Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire by not even opposing George Osborne’s Conservative budget. Plaid Cymru voted against as Labour MPs walked away – this shows they are not fit to govern.
“A top Welsh academic says Plaid Cymru could win this seat. We have a few weeks to turn this prediction into reality. In 1966 Gwynfor Evans put this seat on the map and we can create another political earthquake here again in 2016.”
Click here to see the link to the voting intentions blog.
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