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Plans outlined for Wales to be able to remove misbehaving Senedd members
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff

By Chris Haines
Independent Community News Network Senedd reporter

BADLY behaving Senedd members may be at risk of removal from office between elections under plans unveiled in Wales today.

The Senedd’s standards committee has published a report recommending a system similar to Westminster’s recall of MPs, enacted in 2015 following the expenses scandal.

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