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Morgan to quit on 70th birthday
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Feb 08, 2008 03:20pm |
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| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Friday, February 8, 2008 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | First Minister Rhodri Morgan has revealed he will stand down around his 70th birthday on 29 September, 2009.
Mr Morgan, who is celebrating eight years as leader of the Welsh Assembly Government, had already announced he would give up the job next year.
But he has now put a more precise date on his departure, although he said that might change depending on the timing of the next Westminster general election.
He will continue to be an AM until the next assembly election in May 2011.
Mr Morgan, 68, had a heart scare during protracted negotiations after the last assembly election.
He underwent the surgery to open two partially-blocked arteries in July 2007, shortly after he and Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones agreed their coalition government.
A former civil servant educated at Harvard and Oxford, Mr Morgan took the job of first minister in February 2000 following a remarkable chain of events.
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