Owain Williams is the leader of Llais Gwynedd

Llais Gwynedd

' or Voice of Gwynedd is a small regionalist political party based in Gwynedd in North Wales. The party formed following the Plaid Cymru executive's proposal to more than halve the number of primary schools in Gwynedd by closing rural schools, many of the members being former members of Plaid...

 a Welsh nationalist and regionalist

Regionalism (politics)

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 political party in Gwynedd

Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated...

, north Wales

Wales

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, and councillor

Councillor

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 representing the Clynnog Fawr

Clynnog Fawr

Clynnog Fawr, often simply called "Clynnog", is a village on the north coast of the Llŷn peninsula in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.Clynnog Fawr lies on the A499 road between Caernarfon and Pwllheli, at . It had a population of 130 in 1991...

 ward for Gwynedd Council

Gwynedd Council

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.

He is a fervent nationalist committed to an independent Wales. In the 1960s he was imprisoned for bombing the site of the future Llyn Celyn

Llyn Celyn

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 reservoir

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 but later turned to the democratic

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 route being the chairman of the Independent Wales Party as well as a member of, at different times, both the Welsh Labour Party and Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru

' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...

. In May 2008 he was elected chairman of Llais Gwynedd after their emergence following the 2008 Welsh Local Elections.In the summer of 2009,he was reported to the authorities for leaving the bodies of several dead sheep to rot in his fields.