Frontbench Team of Ieuan Wyn Jones

Frontbench Team of Ieuan Wyn Jones
Frontbench Team of the National Assembly for Wales
May 2011–March 2012
Jones' official portrait, 2011
Date formed	25 May 2011
Date dissolved	15 March 2012
People and organisations
Leader	Ieuan Wyn Jones
Member party	Plaid Cymru
Status in legislature	Opposition party 11 / 60 (18%)
History
Legislature term	4th National Assembly for Wales
Predecessor	Shadow Cabinet of Ieuan Wyn Jones (2007)[a]
Successor	Frontbench Team of Leanne Wood

Ieuan Wyn Jones, the leader of Plaid Cymru, formed his frontbench team^[b] of party spokespeople in the National Assembly for Wales on 25 May 2011 after the dissolution of his party's coalition government with Rhodri Morgan and Carwyn Jones' Welsh Labour following the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election. Jones had previously led a shadow cabinet before entering coalition from 2000 to 2007, when his party had served as the Official Opposition since the 1999 National Assembly for Wales election.

At the 2011 assembly election, Plaid Cymru's share of seats in the assembly fell from 15 to 11 seats to make it the third-largest party in the assembly. The Welsh Conservatives, which had served as the official opposition for the duration of the coalition government, won enough seats to supersede Plaid as the second-largest party with 14 seats and remained the official opposition after the end of the coalition. Jones announced that he would resign as Plaid leader in the first half of the assembly term and on 15 March 2012 Leanne Wood won a leadership election to succeed him as leader before forming a new frontbench team.

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