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Plaid Cymru launches a website on the benefits of an independent Wales

NEWS IN BRIEF. WalesCan.com aims at contributing to achieve a pro-independence majority by 2020

Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales), the main pro-independence party in Wales, has launched this week a new initiative to argue in favour of self-determination for Wales. It is WalesCan.com, a website which features videos with party officials, such as the Member of Parliament Adam Price, and common people's opinions about the consequences of independence for Welsh society and responses to deeply rooted anti-sovereignty clichés. The video Busting the Myth challenges ideas according to which being in favour of independence amounts to being anti-English, or opinions such as "Wales is too poor to be independent".

Commenting on the videos and debating the question over self-determination both in Welsh or English are resources available at the website. It also includes other interactive tools, such as a link to a Facebook group, a YouTube channel and accounts to Twitter and Flickr.

Several Welsh and English media have published that a recent opinion poll had found that just 13% of the Welsh population favoured independence. WalesOnline has quoted Adam Price as saying that Plaid Cymru aims at achieving a majority favouring sovereignty by 2020.