Nooshi Dadgostar

She has sat in the Riksdag since 2014 and was the party's deputy chair from 2018 to 2020. She is named in the market question on who will be Prime Minister of Sweden after the 13 September 2026 election.

Career

Dadgostar was deputy chairperson of the Young Left organisation and sat on the municipal council of Botkyrka. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2014, representing Stockholm County, and was deputy chair of the Left Party from 2018 to 2020 before being elected chair on 31 October 2020. Under her leadership the party took 6.75 percent and 24 of 349 seats in 2022 and 8.40 percent and 30 seats in 2026, according to Wikipedia.

Positions

Dadgostar leads a party that Wikipedia describes as socialist, feminist, eco-socialist, eurosceptic and republican, and that it says is sometimes called far-left. The party has never held a national government post and has instead supported Social Democratic-led governments in parliament. In June 2021 she gave the Löfven government a 48-hour ultimatum to withdraw its plan to relax rent controls; the Left Party then backed a no-confidence vote, and Stefan Löfven lost it, Wikipedia reports.

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