Editing Plaid Cymru (section)

===1980s===
Caernarfon MP [[Dafydd Wigley]] succeeded Gwynfor Evans as president in 1981, inheriting a party whose morale was at an all-time low. In 1981 the party adopted a policy of "community socialism".<ref>{{citation|mode=cs1|title=Political Parties in Britain|first1=Matt|last1=Cole|first2=Helen|last2=Deighan|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|date=2012|page=165}}</ref> While the party embarked on a wide-ranging review of its priorities and goals, Gwynfor Evans fought a successful campaign (including the threat of a hunger strike) to oblige the Conservative government to fulfill its promise to establish [[S4C]], a Welsh-language television station.<ref>{{cite news |title=Plaid pioneer Gwynfor Evans dies |work=[[BBC News]] |date=21 April 2005 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2002565.stm |access-date=31 July 2008 |quote=Mr Evans changed the face of British politics when he became Plaid's first MP in the 1966 Carmarthen by-election. Fourteen years later he threatened to starve himself to death in the cause of Welsh language television, leading to the foundation of S4C. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115142431/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2002565.stm |archive-date=15 January 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1984, [[Dafydd Elis-Thomas]] was elected president, defeating [[Dafydd Iwan]], a move that saw the party shift to the left. [[Ieuan Wyn Jones]] (later Plaid Cymru leader) captured [[Ynys Mon (UK Parliament constituency)|Ynys Môn]] from the Conservatives in [[1987 United Kingdom general election|1987]]. In 1989 Dafydd Wigley once again assumed the presidency of the party.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}