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| Anglesey council: Labour-independent coalition deal announced | Anglesey council: Labour-independent coalition deal announced |
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| The Labour group on Anglesey council says it will form a coalition with independent councillors to run the authority. | |
| Last week's election left the authority with no overall control. | Last week's election left the authority with no overall control. |
| Labour, which has three councillors, said the 14 independents have a mandate to rule because they won the largest proportion of the vote. | Labour, which has three councillors, said the 14 independents have a mandate to rule because they won the largest proportion of the vote. |
| Plaid Cymru is the largest party, with 12 of the 30 councillors and had hoped to form its own coalition with Labour. | |
| Labour group leader Arwel Roberts said: "The independent group won the largest percentage of the vote and therefore have the mandate from the people of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) to form a ruling group. | |
| "We have been assured by the independent group that they intend to stay as a coherent and disciplined unit. | |
| "We as the Labour group are willing to support and work with them to maintain a partnership that will work hard on behalf of the people of Ynys Môn." | |
| Independent councillors elected last week met on Tuesday and said they would join forces to set up a new alliance under the leadership of the Lligwy ward councillor Ieuan Williams. | |
| Anglesey was the only Welsh council to hold an election last week, after being delayed by a year. | |
| It followed the appointment by the Welsh government of commissioners to run the council in 2011 after bitter splits between independent councillors. | |
| Some of those commissioners will remain in place until at least the end of this month. | |
| In February, the then Local Government Minister Carl Sargeant said full control would be handed back to the authority only when a stable administration was in place. |