Mellin: Nooshi Dadgostar’s challenges as party leader

Dadgostar’s challenges as a new leader in V

Published: October 31, 2020 at 7:46 p.m.
Updated: October 31, 2020 at 9:28 p.m.

Nooshi Dadgostar has one thing to learn. That the Left Party has only eight percent of the voters behind.

Then it finally becomes a bit hollow to threaten the government crisis week after week.

In the late afternoon, Nooshi Dadgostar was elected the new leader of the Left Party after nearly nine years with Jonas Sjöstedt at the helm.

It didn’t take many minutes before the new V-leader widely announced that the government could not run over LO. These are, of course, the new Las rules that the Left Party has declared war on even before there is a final proposal on how they should be.

Previously, the party has said it wants to remove the Löfven government at the helm if the state investigation that looked into the issue is not thrown away. M, KD and SD have declared themselves ready to join the party. Therefore, Stefan Löfven would be eliminated.

Then Stefan Löfven on Thursday He announced that the agreement that private employees and businessmen had agreed would be a guide in the ongoing work to change Las, the Left Party has changed the argument.

Now LO, who did not sign the agreement, will not be run over by the government.

From that, I think Nooshi Dadgostar As the new party leader you should learn from the following facts.

The first is that the Left Party is behind eight percent of the voters and that all the other parties in the Riksdag want to change Las.

That in that situation, as a minority, Threatening a government crisis practically once a week becomes hollow.

The second thing to remember is that LO is not a small, poor organization that cannot carry out its own actions.

The national organization, LO, consists of 14 unions and just over 1.4 million members. They are the most influential trade union movement in Sweden and also have special ties to the main ruling party, the Social Democrats. The president of LO is a member of the senior leadership of the party, the president of Metall is elected to the same parish.

It seems unlikely that the Social Democrats will run over one of their most important funders, who is also part of what they call the labor movement. But if that were the case, I don’t think the Left Party protests would be perceived as particularly strong.

Photo: LOTTE FERNVALL

Nooshi Dadgostar, the new leader of the Left party.

In addition, the new bill is being worked on., the modernization of Las, takes a long time. It is not clear on this page New Years. For as long as possible, there can be threats of new elections and a government crisis.

But Nooshi Dadgostar also has other challenges as the party’s leader.

Get more to say. In his farewell speech, Jonas Sjöstedt pointed out that the Left Party grew in the last elections. But he lost influence.

The main explanation is that the Party of the Left is only on the left wing in Swedish politics. His path of influence usually passes through the Social Democrats. If the earth S falls, it spills over to V.

What should Dadgostar do about it? An alternative is to wait for S to recover the lost land. Another is to find other partners. The latter may be easier said than done, at least at the national level.

2. Fill your own suit, not Sjöstedts. Jonas Sjöstedt does not leave the leadership position of the party because he has been expelled. On the contrary. In many ways, he has been the leader of V’s most successful party in modern times.

Therefore, it may be tempting to step on your wool socks. But that would be a mistake. Dadgostar must form his own leadership role in the party. How he intends to do it may be evident in his first party leadership speech, which will take place on Sunday.

– The greatest confidence that a person can have, said minutes after the elections.

Oh good. But nice enough.

3. Keep together. During Sjöstedt’s time as party leader, the phalanx battles within V have rested. They could have been long-lasting and bitter.

A divided party is a weak party. Therefore, one of the most important tasks of Dadgostar will be to maintain harmony and a good atmosphere.

There are no signs to the contrary. But strife can appear when you least expect it.

This is cost

Name Nooshi dadgostar

Years: 35 years

Family: Cohabitant and a child

Bor: In stockholm

Race: Riksdag member since 2014. Leading state investigation in the field of social security. Formerly active politically and in the “Alby is not for sale” movement, against the privatizations of municipally owned apartments in the municipality of Botkyrka.

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From: Lena Mellin

Published: October 31, 2020 at 7:46 p.m.