Vaughan Gething beat his only rival, the education minister Jeremy Miles, to succeed Mark Drakeford after a three-month battle for the Welsh
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First elected to the Senedd in 2011, Mr Gething has served as economy minister since the last election in 2021 and was previously health minister.
Vaughan Gething has been elected leader of Welsh Labour - and is set to become the next Welsh first minister and first black leader of any European country.
Currently serving as minister for the economy, Mr Gething, 50, has been in politics since he was a teenager.
But he rose to prominence as health minister throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, when, he told years later, "you had to make really difficult, big calls and go out and front them up on a daily basis".
Set to become the nation's first black first minister, he said: "Today we turn the page in the book of our nation's history.
"A history that we write together."
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Early career: Mr Gething studied law at Aberystwyth University and then qualified as a solicitor at Cardiff University, having also served as the president of Wales's National Union of Students.
His passion for politics began at a young age: he joined the Labour Party at 17 to help campaign in the 1992 elections. Before being elected to the Senedd, he worked as a researcher for former Assembly Members Val Feld and Lorraine Barrett between 1999 and 2001
He is a keen cricketer but now describes himself as "largely retired".
While cricket is his main sporting passion, Mr Gething is also a fan of rugby and football.
But he says most of his time outside of parliament is spent with his wife and young son.
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