In a recent debate between party leaders, SD leader Jimmie Åkesson and M leader and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, accused the Left Party of left-wing populism and wanting to chase rich Swedes out of the country. The Left's economic policy is "unreasonably crappy," according to Åkesson.
Justice
But Nooshi Dadgostar believes that it is about justice and the conditions in healthcare, education and social care, and indeed the entire Swedish welfare system.
Anyone who stands in the store at Hemköp should not pay more in taxes than the person who owns Hemköp.
The left-wing leader is referring to the fact that wage earners pay a larger percentage of their income in tax than the wealthy, who often pay the lower capital tax on their income.
A tax for billionaires, based on the model of French economist Gabriel Zucman, would, however, take a long time to implement. For example, there is currently no comprehensive data on individual wealth - it disappeared when the wealth tax was abolished by Fredrik Reinfeldt's coalition government in 2007.
Few are hanging on
So far, only the Green Party has embraced the idea among the red-greens, while the Social Democrats are generally talking about the richest paying a little more. For the Center Party, tax increases are not an option and government cooperation with the Left is unthinkable.
The Left Party's economic policy is radical, fundamentally different from that of the Social Democrats and the Swedish People's Party, and incompatible with that of the Conservative Party.
But Nooshi Dadgostar received an absolute demand from its congress in April. V will vote no not only to bourgeois governments but also to red-green ones, if the party is not allowed to be part of one.
"It's a message we share with all other parties. It's a normalization of Swedish politics," she says, adding:
A vote for the Left Party is a vote for a guaranteed new direction. It's hard to say about the other parties.
V has bitter experiences of supporting S-led governments from the outside, most recently Stefan Löfven's second. When Löfven and the supporting parties L and C wanted to proceed with an investigation into market rent in new construction in the summer of 2021, V - together with SD, M and KD - brought down the government.
One problem for the V-leader is that none of the other red-green parties seem to want V in a government. S-leader Magdalena Andersson has talked more about cooperation to the right.
Since the interview was conducted, Expressen has highlighted dozens of candidates on the V lists in this autumn's municipal and regional elections who, among other things, expressed support for terrorist groups. V has immediately removed them, but this may affect the view of V as a government party.
New election
If new elections were threatened after a red-green election victory, opposition to V in a red-green government could decrease, the V leader believes.
It's clear that no one wants it (read: new elections). That's what I'm assuming.
The party hopes for higher voter support than in 2022, when V received 6.7 percent in the parliamentary elections. And Nooshi Dadgostar believes that there is a possibility that V could be bigger than the Moderates in the municipal elections in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.
