Vaughan Gething has been announced as the winner of the Welsh Labour leadership election.
The outgoing first minister, Mark Drakeford, will step down from the post next week.
In his acceptance speech, Vaughan Gething says he will be the "first black leader in any European country"
Vaughan Gething, Wales' economy minister and a former solicitor, was born in Zambia and raised in England before studying in Wales.
Gething ran against Wales' Education Minister Jeremy Miles, also a solicitor, who was born and brought up in the mining town of Pontarddulais.
Gething was health minister between 2016 and May 2021, and oversaw Wales' initial response to Covid.
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