The Left Party has a tailwind in opinion polls and is above 8 percent, clearly above the election result from 2022.
Dadgostar's tactic has been to portray V as the guarantor that a possible S-led government will not pursue right-wing politics. This also applies to Saturday's speech on Södermalm in Stockholm.
"Now we are making sure to push politics to the left. The bigger we get, the more we can push government policy to the left," she says.
Bad company
The "bad company" that Dadgostar warns about is that Andersson, as a potential new prime minister, would choose to try to cooperate with the Centre Party or the Christian Democrats to gain a majority in the Riksdag.
"Protect us from continued right-wing politics where the Centre Party is given free rein to sell out our common welfare and worsen job security," says the V leader in the speech.
She jokes about Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson's warning of the biggest left turn since the 1970s.
We are ready for the dangerous left turn!
Dadgostar promises in her speech that working hours will be reduced with maintained pay during the next term, but also that it will be a right to be promoted to full-time if you work part-time.
“Travel to do”
V wants unions and employers to negotiate shorter working hours, but that a new government should also appoint an inquiry into shorter working hours to pressure the parties. However, Dadgostar does not want to threaten legislation at this time.
In the speech, the V leader also promises to increase student grants, to address the housing shortage for young people, to make the temporary reduction in public transport fees permanent, to abolish the waiting period deduction, to make dental care free of charge and to freeze rents.
V has a congress decision that it will not allow or support a government that the party itself is not part of. But S leader Magdalena Andersson believes that V "has a journey to make" before V can be part of a government.
The S leader is referring, among other things, to the letters of support that left-wing members of parliament have written to Palestinians convicted of terrorism.
Various conversations
When asked what V should do to be ready to sit in a government, Andersson tells TT:
I discuss this directly with them and not through the media.
According to Dadgostar, she and Andersson have had "different conversations", but when asked if Andersson said what V needs to do to be allowed to sit in a government, the V leader says:
We talk about a lot and I won't say what we say in closed rooms.
