| Nooshi Dadgostar | |
| Office: | Leader of the Left Party |
| Term Start: | 31 October 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Jonas Sjöstedt |
| Office1: | Member of the Riksdag |
| Term Start1: | 30 September 2014 |
| Constituency1: | Stockholm County |
| Birth Name: | Mehrnoosh Dadgostar |
| Birth Date: | 20 June 1985 |
| Birth Place: | Ängelholm, Sweden |
| Party: | Left Party |
| Education: | Stockholm University (did not finish) |
Mehrnoosh "Nooshi" Dadgostar (born 20 June 1985) is a Swedish politician, a member of the Riksdag since 2014, deputy chair of the Left Party from 2018 to 2020, and the chair since 2020.[1] [2]
On 3 February 2020, Dadgostar announced that she would be running for leader of her party following the resignation of Jonas Sjöstedt.[3] In late September 2020, Dadgostar was officially nominated as the party's new leader,[4] and on 31 October she was elected leader of the Left Party.[1]
In mid-June 2021, she threatened to seek a vote of no-confidence in Stefan Löfven's premiership after the government announced its intention to relax rent control laws in Sweden.[5] On 15 June, she issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the government to either withdraw its plans or have the Left Party withdrawing from the governing coalition.[6] Dadgostar followed through by pulling the Left Party out from their passive support, resulting in a chamber vote where the Riksdag voted Löfven out of power.[7]
Her parents moved to Sweden as refugees from Iran to escape persecution in the early 1980s. She grew up in Gothenburg.[8] She enrolled at Stockholm University, studying law, but did not complete a degree.[9]