POLL DEMO: A pre-election rally cry at Westgate Square, Newport, to mark the start of a new drive for modern to go to the. Pictured from left, Julian Evans (Charles Morgan, of the Friers), Debra John, (Margaret Richards) and Andrew Moorman, (Sir Frederic
A PRE-ELECTION rally in Newport saw actors representing the Chartists, who campaigned for the vote for ordinary men, challenged passers-by to make use of their hard-won democratic rights on Assembly polling day, May 3.
Under the slogan "Dying to Vote", their aim was also to boost interest in the South Wales Chartists, whose bloody uprising in Newport in 1839 was a major milestone on the path to today's democratic system.
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