Eurig Wyn (10 October 1944 – 25 June 2019) was a Welsh politician and reporter. He was a

Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from th ...

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for

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from 1999 to 2004, when he lost his seat, in part due to a reduction of the number of seats allocated to Wales. He had previously been a journalist for the

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. During 2005, Eurig Wyn was selected as Plaid Cymru's parliamentary candidate for the Ynys Môn constituency which he unsuccessfully sought to gain for Plaid Cymru in the general election of that year. He died in June 2019.

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Profile at European Parliament website
1944 births 2019 deaths Welsh-speaking journalists Welsh-speaking politicians Plaid Cymru parliamentary candidates Welsh journalists Plaid Cymru MEPs MEPs for Wales 1999–2004 {{UK-MEP-stub

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