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European Election 2014

The European Election will be held on May 22 when Wales will elect four MEPs. The votes won't be counted until May 25, as not result can be declared until voting is completed across the European Union.

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Lib Dems must keep explaining says Welsh Leader

The Welsh Liberal Democrat leader says her party needs to continue to explain why it went into coalition with the Conservatives and what it's achieving in government. Kirsty Williams suggested a decision not to do that was one of the reasons why the Lib Dems performed badly in the European election.

She blamed that decision on 'people [within the Lib Dems] who found the decision to go into coalition difficult and the stuff that goes along with that decision challenging.' Asked what the party had to do to turn its fortunes around, she said:

It's very important that we go on articulating much more clearly the reasons why we chose to go into coalition and what the alternatives were. Some people had decided we didn't need to go on doing that.

We have to articulate much more clearly what the Liberal Democrats are for and what people will get with the Liberal Democrats. Nobody else will do that for us. The Daily Mail is not suddenly going to become benign towards us. We are going to have to do that ourselves.

– Kirsty Williams AM, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader

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