8 April
Lorena Delgado Varas, member of The Left Party's party board, is reported to the police for incitement against a ethnic group after she shared a post in social media where the image text claimed that "Zionist Jews" control countries through control over politics and banks.
Delgado Varas takes a break from her political assignments during the investigation.
22 April
The prosecutor announces that no preliminary investigation will be initiated, as he accepts Delgado Varas' explanation that she had missed the antisemitic message in the image text when she shared the image, which contained criticism of the USA.
2 May
Delgado Varas is urged to leave her political assignments by the party leadership. According to the party secretary, she has failed in her judgment on repeated occasions.
She refuses and receives support from a number of prominent left-wing names.
One of the most vocal is parliamentary colleague Daniel Riazat. He calls it "one of the biggest scandals in our party's modern history" and chooses to leave his seat on the party board.
20 August
Both Riazat and Delgado Varas announce that expulsion cases have been opened against them. In Riazat's case, he has, according to the party secretary, acted inappropriately and "in a way that is not compatible with holding a position of trust for The Left Party".
Riazat himself says that the party already in October 2023 wanted to expel him, after he wrote a post in social media about "the Western world hypocrites about Palestine".
24 August
Delgado Varas and Riazat say at a press conference that they are leaving the party and that they will "build an alternative" to The Left Party.
At the same time, they accuse the party leadership and Nooshi Dadgostar of Stalinist methods and bullying to achieve the goal of getting ministerial posts in an S-led government. That is not true, says party secretary Maria Forsberg. She says that in both cases it is about "inappropriate behavior over time”.
