{"id":182534,"date":"2026-11-12T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=182534"},"modified":"2026-11-12T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:26:58","slug":"vansterpartiets-fiasko-blixtinkallade-till-presstraff-utan-nagra-nyheter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/the-left-partys-fiasco-led-to-a-hastily-called-press-conference-with-no-news-to-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Party's Fiasco \u2013 Called to a Press Conference at the Last Minute with No News to Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Left Party hastily called a press conference in the midst of the government crisis. But despite the dramatic setting, hardly anything new came out of it. Instead, Nooshi Dadgostar repeated already well-known positions\u2014and was met with ridicule on social media.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, the Left Party suddenly called for a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bNMxWj_Vu1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference <\/a><\/strong>in the Riksdag. The party leader <strong>Nooshi Dadgostar<\/strong> and deputy leader of the party <strong>Ida Gabrielsson<\/strong> was expected to announce the outcome of the government formation process, which had been underway for 60 days. But anyone hoping for a political breakthrough waited in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main message was that the Left Party is still demanding ministerial posts in a government led by <strong>Magdalena Andersson<\/strong>. The party also reiterated its willingness to continue the four-party negotiations if the Center Party accepts Andersson\u2019s upcoming government proposal. No solution to the government crisis was presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Criticized on social media<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The press conference quickly drew criticism on social media, where several users questioned why the party had called a press conference in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dWhat an utterly pointless press conference the Left Party just held.\u201d<\/em>, \", writes a user on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dHuge congratulations to the 1TP5 Left Party for pulling off the most pointless press conference of all time.\u201d<\/em>, writes another user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the \u201cR\u00e4nta p\u00e5 r\u00e4nta\u201d account accused the Left Party of trying to create a smokescreen around the Social Democrats\u2019 offer to the Center Party. The criticism, therefore, was not only about the lack of new information, but also about what the press conference was actually intended to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Still No Government<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, coalition talks continue without any breakthrough. The Center Party is expected to take a position on Magdalena Andersson\u2019s proposal, while the Left Party is sticking to its demands regarding ministerial posts. After 60 days without a new government, Thursday\u2019s big news was thus that the Left Party still holds the same position as before.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With bold headlines, the Left Party invited the press to a press conference on the government issue. What\u2019s interesting isn\u2019t what was said, but why<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1520,205,325,217,216],"tags":[2007,159],"class_list":["post-182534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-stor","category-nyheter","category-nyheter-video","category-nyhetssamtalet","category-tv","tag-nooshi-dadgostar","tag-vansterpartiet","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}