According to Expressen's review, 25 municipal candidates, primarily in southern Sweden, including Staffanstorp and Helsingborg but also in Örebro, have expressed sympathy for the groups.
These include al-Qaeda, Hamas, the Houthi rebels and Hezbollah. Some of them have shared posts on social media that question the Holocaust. So far, 13 of the candidates are no longer on the electoral lists.
Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar has said that the party has no problem with terrorist sympathies or anti-Semitism, saying that it is about “a handful of people.”
