TODAY is the last day voters in Brecon and Radnorshire can sign a petition to recall MP Chris Davies over his false expenses claim.
The Conservative MP will face a by-election if 10% of constituents, which is 5,303 people, sign the petition.
It was opened after he admitted submitting a false expenses claim and a further charge of attempting to do so in 2016. In April this year he was sentenced to carry out 50 hours of unpaid work, over the next 12 months, and pay a £1,500 fine for the offences which related to the cost of photographs for his Builth Wells constituency office.
He had been entitled to claim for the photographs but not create the two false invoices so the cost of the one original invoice could be split between two expenses accounts.
Rival parties have been vigorously campaigning in the constituency to meet the threshold but Plaid Cymru apologised this week for a leaflet it had issued with the Labour Party which wrongly stated the MP had been convicted of fraud.
Fraud charges the MP had been facing were dropped and he admitted the two offences under the Parliamentary Standards Act.
The Tory MP will discover on Friday if he has lost his seat the recall petition closes at 5pm today, Thursday, June 20
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