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Senedd: Badly behaving members could be given the boot

However, while Westminster MPs who are recalled have to fight a by-election, these will not be permitted under the new Senedd voting system for 2026.

Since 2016, MPs who are suspended from the Commons for ten days or more are subject to a procedure called recall.

It means that a petition is held in their local constituency. If ten per cent or more of local voters sign it, a by-election is triggered where the politician could chose to defend their seat.

They can also be recalled if they are given a prison sentence of less than 12 months – any longer than that and they are disqualified outright.

Earlier this year Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake said that his former party colleague in the Senedd, Rhys ab Owen, should have been threatened with a by-election after he was banned from the parliament for 42 days for inappropriate behaviour towards two women on a night out.


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