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Ann Davies (politician)

Celia Ann Davies (also known as Ann Bremenda) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Caerfyrddin since 2024.

Davies was also a councillor on Carmarthenshire County Council, and served before becoming an MP as cabinet member for rural affairs, community cohesion and planning policy.

Career

Davies has experience in the agriculture sector and has farmed a tenant farm in Llanarthney with her husband since 1992. She is also co-owner of a local nursery and was a lecturer in early years learning at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and before that she worked as a peripatetic music teacher.

She started becoming an active member of Plaid Cymru at 18 years old. Davies stood to become a Carmarthenshire County Council member for Llanddarog in 2017 after her children had finished university education. She was appointed as a cabinet member of the Council in 2021 originally under the portfolio of Communities and Rural Affairs. This was expanded to include planning policy.

Since the announcement in 2023 of plans for a pylon line in the Towy Valley to connect a wind farm near Llandrindod Wells and a substation near Carmarthen, Davies has been involved in efforts to opposing the proposal. Davies and others have called for the consideration of alternative methods of energy transmission, in particular underground cables, which they argue could reduce the effect on the surrounding landscape.

On 4 July 2024, Davies was elected as the MP for Caerfyrddin, by 4,535 votes, a margin of 9.9% over Labour.

Volunteering

Since September 2023 Davies has been the chairperson of the local Farmers Union of Wales branch. She is also the Chair of Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary Services (2023 - 2026).

Personal life

Davies is a mother of three and a grandmother of seven children. She is a Christian and plays the organ at her local church, in addition to conducting local Gymanfaoedd ganu.

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