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Nooshi Dadgostar has a new strategy to stick to as he now takes over the leadership of the party after Jonas Sjöstedt. The strategy document states that the Left Party has been successful, mainly in the big cities. Support in smaller cities and rural areas is weaker. These are municipalities with less than 30,000 inhabitants. Above all, workers outside the big cities identify as a group in which V will try to grow.
In his speech ending the Left Party congress on Sunday, Nooshi Dadgostar addressed the Swedish industrial workers directly.
– In places like Sandviken, Degerfors and Grums, the foundations of modern Sweden were laid. Everything that builds the future is still being created in our industrial areas. We have perhaps the best industrial workers in the world, said the new leader in V and continued:
– They are the people who build societies.
In the fight for voters In these groups, the strategy paper points to the Swedish Democrats as a clear opponent:
“To promote an ideological change in Sweden, the labor movement needs to retake the initiative in the historically red factories where SD today tries to organize support for a right-wing policy,” it says in the strategy document. It is about recovering “parts of the working class that previously voted with the labor movement but no longer do so.”
In his speech, Nooshi Dadgostar reiterated the threat of the Left Party to overthrow Prime Minister Stefan Löfven over the labor law issue. Did you warn the government to “run over the 1.5 million members of LO”?
– We in the Left Party have been clear from the beginning: in that case, Stefan Löfven cannot remain Prime Minister. Job security is too important, Nooshi Dadgostar said.
During the congressional debate On strategy, Jonas Karlsson from Uppsala County, deputy party board member, challenged winning more worker voters as follows:
– Our strategy cannot be simply to gnaw on the corpses of the Social Democrats, a kind of red-green cannibalism. We must also win voters from the right, otherwise the vision of a red-green majority will sail to the horizon, Jonas Karlsson said.
According to the strategy document, one way to reach desired voters is to communicate party politics in more everyday language without academic terms. Representatives of more visible parties with labor professions are also proposed.
The strategy was debated animated in the digital congress that ends on Sunday. The party board’s proposal was widely accepted, but was also voted on through changes. Many representatives demanded that the party once again have a special spokesperson for rural policy, in order to better reach out to electoral groups outside the cities. The party board had said no, but had to surrender when a majority voted to appoint that spokesperson.
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