Who will lead Wales next? Your guide to the two men in the running
Voting has begun for the two candidates vying to be the next first minister of Wales.
Jeremy Miles, the current minister for education and Welsh language, and Vaughan Gething, the minister for the economy, are competing to see who will lead Welsh Labour, and the country, by mid-March.
They want to replace Mark Drakeford, who has been first minister since 2018, having announced his intention to resign late last year.
Whoever is successful will become the fifth leader of the country since the National Assembly for Wales (now called the Senedd) was established in 1999.
Most people in Wales will not get a say in which of them will be the new leader of the country.
Only Labour members or part of an affiliated organisation, such as a trade union, can participate, meaning about 100,000 people can vote.
Mr Gething has the backing of most of the large unions, and Lord Kinnock, who led the UK party from 1983 to 1992.
There has been some controversy over Mr Gething receiving the backing of the Unite union, after his opponent was disqualified because he has never held "elected lay office as representatives of workers".
Mr Miles said it was "a new rule that no-one was aware of" and that members were unhappy.
But Unite said it had carried out the nomination process correctly and Mr Gething said it was up to the union to determine its own democratic processes.
Unlike previous Labour leadership elections, all the votes are equally weighted.
Selection in the past has used an "electoral college" system, giving greater weight to MPs and Members of the Senedd.
Voting opened on Friday and the result will be declared on March 16.
Mark Drakeford is not expected to stand down immediately and his final first minister's questions is expected on March 19.
A vote will also need to take place in the Senedd at which opposition groups can put forward their own candidates.
With Labour the largest party, it is unlikely that any other group would take the role.
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Wales' education minister Jeremy Miles has represented Neath in the Senedd since 2016 and joined the cabinet a year later as the Counsel General for Wales.
Born in 1971, Mr Miles went to a bilingual school and is a native Welsh speaker.
In his manifesto he talks about his commitment to equality, inspired by the prejudice he faced as a young gay man and the struggles endured by miners where he grew up in Pontarddulais, near Swansea.
Like his opponent Vaughan Gething, he went on to study law.
Mr Miles worked in the private sector for almost 20 years, practising as a solicitor in London.
Before being elected to the Senedd in 2016, Mr Miles stood for election to the UK parliament.
He stood first in the safe Conservative seat of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire in 2010 and then tried get the Labour selection for Aberavon in 2014, when he lost to Stephen Kinnock by one vote.
In the Senedd, he spearheaded legislation to extend voting rights to 16-year-olds for the first time in Welsh elections.
He also helped the Welsh government join a case by Gina Miller against the UK Government, which said the latter had acted unlawfully in proroguing Parliament in 2019 and denying the Senedd an opportunity to influence Brexit.
The Supreme Court ruled against the Conservative government.
In 2018 he nominated and endorsed Mark Drakeford to succeed Carwyn Jones as the leader of Welsh Labour, over his rival Mr Gething.
Vaughan Gething became involved in politics at a young age, having joined the Labour Party at 17 to help campaign in the 1992 elections.
He has been a Member of the Senedd (MS) since 2011 and has sat in the cabinet since 2016.
He rose to prominence as health minister throughout the pandemic, a post he held from 2016 to 2021.
Mr Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father, a Welsh vet from Ogmore-by-Sea in Glamorgan, met his mother, a chicken farmer.
He has spoken openly about his experiences of prejudice and said in his campaign material he does not want anyone in Wales to feel that way.
When he was two his family moved to Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, where his father was due to start a new job, but the offer was withdrawn when he arrived with a black family.
After his father lost his job in Abergavenny, the family moved to Dorset in England, and he later studied law at Aberystwyth University.
He unsuccessfully stood for the Mid and West Wales seat at the first National Assembly elections in 1999, before becoming councillor for the Butetown area of Cardiff in 2004.
He stood for the Senedd elections again in 2011, when he successfully took the Cardiff South and Penarth Seat.
This is the second time he has run for the top job, having stood in 2018 against Mark Drakeford.