In this pod, we take a look at the package of reforms that mean the Welsh Parliament is expanded to 96 members in 2026 and has a significant - and universally unpopular - new voting system. No party seems to like it, academic researchers don't rate it, and electoral reform campaigners didn't want it. So how did we end up with a system like this?!

#Senedd26 #Wales #cymru

You can learn how the new voting system works using Dr Jac Larner's modeller here: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wales/the-2026-senedd-election-simulator-one-year-to-go/

Your hosts:

Prof Laura McAllister of the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, former national football team captain and Vice President at UEFA

Lauren McEvatt, former Conservative Special Advisor to the Wales Office in UK Govt

Lee Waters, Labour Party Member of the Senedd for Llanelli and former Welsh Govt Minister

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