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‘I feel completely confident,’ Dadgostar said

From Svenska Dagbladet · () Swedish

Translated from Swedish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

Opinion Named sources Context piece
  • Svenska Dagbladet’s editorial revisits Nooshi Dadgostar’s assurance that she felt completely confident about Vänsterpartiet’s candidates.
  • The article says 25 candidates were previously removed over extremist or discriminatory views, followed by eight more candidates identified by Expressen.
  • Vänsterpartiet removed the additional candidates from its lists, including people linked in the article to antisemitic conspiracy claims and support for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and suicide attacks.

“I feel completely confident,” Nooshi Dadgostar said when asked whether no Vänsterpartiet candidates elected in the autumn would hold views unacceptable to the party. Svenska Dagbladet’s editorial now turns that assurance against her.

I feel completely confident with this

· Nooshi DadgostarThe Vänsterpartiet leader responded to a question about whether the party’s candidates held unacceptable views.

The question followed an Expressen investigation into the Left Party’s candidates for national, regional and municipal elections. The investigation found candidates who had expressed support for terrorism, homophobia or antisemitism, denied the Holocaust or praised dictators. Twenty-five people were removed from the lists after the revelations.

Then, on Monday, Expressen reported eight more candidates whose views, the editorial says, did not sit closely with the party program. One woman on the party’s list in Örebro had shared Instagram posts claiming that fast-food chains, through the actions of Jews, contained human meat from kidnapped children. After Expressen contacted her, she referred questions to the party. Vänsterpartiet said she had withdrawn her candidacy and was “deeply remorseful,” adding that she had not realized the video contained antisemitic tropes.

deeply remorseful

· VänsterpartietThe party described the Örebro candidate after she withdrew her candidacy.

In Heby municipality, another Vänsterpartiet candidate expressed support for the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and shared a video praising suicide attacks. When contacted by Expressen, he refused to speak to the reporter, calling her “a Zionist, not a Palestinian.” The other candidates came from Ljusnarsberg, Borås, Alingsås, Partille, Nynäshamn and Gnesta. Vänsterpartiet removed all eight after Expressen submitted questions.

a Zionist, not a Palestinian

· Vänsterpartiet candidate in HebyThe candidate refused to speak with the Expressen reporter.

The editorial closes with pointed irony. When P1 interviewers asked whether new cases would emerge, Dadgostar said she was confident that everyone knew the party’s position and that its candidates represented it very well. The article says voters may now feel increasingly certain about where Vänsterpartiet stands, even if that position does not appear in its program.

We have people on the lists who represent us very well

· Nooshi DadgostarDadgostar defended the party’s candidate lists during the P1 interview.
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Originally published by Svenska Dagbladet in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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