These include posts with tributes to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Hamas terror group or anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, according to Expressen, which has combed through the V candidates' social media.
All the candidates ran in the municipal elections, and one of them was also on the parliamentary list.
They are gone and were not eligible for election on the list, Left Party Leader Nooshi Dadgostar told Expressen.
Conspiracies and hatred
In the posts, several V candidates have spread hateful anti-Semitic conspiracies. Among other things, one person has shared a video about Jews bleeding children and selling the meat to slaughterhouses. Others have shared conspiracy theories about a deep state, about covid and even pro-Russian conspiracies. Being trans is compared with having anorexia by one candidate, and mocking AI-generated images and clips of party leaders have been shared.
Earlier this year, 25 people were removed from the Left Party's lists after similar revelations.
"This is a rot that goes deep into the left. Nooshi Dadgostar and her party are playing it down, minimizing and trying to forget," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says in a written comment to TT.
C: Structural problem
Dadgostar tells Expressen:
Now it is the voters who decide what it will look like. Our mandates will be needed.
Center Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist writes in a comment to TT that the Left Party has a structural problem, a leadership problem and that V leader Nooshi Dadgostar has not had control over the party's representatives.
"The Center Party will never allow or support a government that includes the Left Party. This shows once again why Sweden needs a government in the middle without influence from the extremes."
