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Stefan Löfven has to pay attention to the Left Party
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Nooshi Dadgostar will be elected party leader in the Left Congress in just over a month. This is the proposal of the nominating committee and there are no more candidates.
The lack of challengers could be because the work was hard. During his nearly eight years as party leader, Jonas Sjöstedt has gained trust among voters and political opponents alike.
Sjöstedt also becomes as unusual as a leftist leader who voluntarily resigns. Replacing it will not be easy.
The Right Leader Today
That no one in the Left Party chooses to challenge Nooshi Dadgoster may have another explanation. In the situation the party is in today, you can show that you are exactly the leader you need.
Throughout the history of the Left Party there is a thread that of course must be red. It is about the relationship between social criticism and concrete social change. The popular movement works or practical politics, so to speak.
Since the 1990s, it has been practical politics that has dominated.
The Left Party has negotiated budgets and has been part of a red-green bloc. The question of ministerial posts has been raised over and over again and results have hardly been lost.
Left proposals arouse pride
The memory is remembered when Mikael Damberg told four years ago that he was particularly proud of government policy. All proposals originally came from the left.
Jonas Sjöstedt has been in many ways a symbol of the collaborative strategy. The outcome of the elections two years ago fundamentally changed the game plan.
Although the Left Party made its best decision since 2002 and one of the best in history, the January agreement closed the door to government cooperation. Sjöstedt’s talk about a secret deal with Löfven hasn’t changed that image.
The parliamentary situation requires more than a negotiating habit from a leftist leader. This is where Nooshi Dadgostar can come in.
Fight against privatization
She has experience as an activist rather than as a classical politician. It is not possible to talk about Nooshi Dadgostar without also talking about the network “Alby is not for sale” and the fight against the privatization of housing in Botkyrka.
In an interview on Dagens Nyheter, he describes how the campaign failed to stop sales, but still built self-confidence among those who participated. Success of another kind.
This is what an activist says, and this is how a party leader might speak to a generation that grew up with activism. Against racism and discrimination, for the rights of LGBTQ people and not least to save the planet from the climate catastrophe.
The fact that the Nominating Committee presents its proposal the same day that Preem surprisingly withdraws plans for a Lysekil refinery is a fact that may seem like a thought.
Nooshi Dadgostar’s Left Party may well become an interesting part of Swedish politics. It is not impossible that both Stefan Löfven and the Green Party have reason to look up.
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