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, but who is the man expected to be voted in as Wales's first minister? The son of a Welsh vet, Mr Gething, 50, was born in Zambia and brought up in Dorset. He is a keen cricketer but now describes himself as 'largely retired'. He 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.
Mr Gething joined the cabinet in 2013 as deputy minister for tackling poverty, the first black cabinet minister in any of the devolved governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. He was appointed deputy minister for health in 2014, before he took on the role of health minister in 2016. He retained the role throughout the first year of the pandemic until he was made economy minister, with the government's COVID response currently the subject of an ongoing public inquiry.
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