Nooshi Dadgostar
Leader of the Swedish Left Party from 31 October 2020 who, less than nine months into the job, triggered the 2021 Midsummer crisis by withdrawing the party's tolerance of Stefan Löfven's government over rental-market liberalisation — and carried the first successful no-confidence vote against a sitting Swedish prime minister, 181–109, on 21 June 2021.
Nooshi Dadgostar took the leadership of Vänsterpartiet on 31 October 2020 from Jonas Sjöstedt. She used it, within nine months, to do something no Vänsterpartiet leader had ever done: bring down a Swedish government. The trigger was the 2019 January Agreement’s commitment to introduce free-market rent-setting in newly built rentals — a measure V had reserved the right to break the government over since the agreement was signed.
In mid-June 2021 Dadgostar issued an ultimatum on the rental reform. The cabinet did not retreat. On 17 June V formally withdrew confidence in Stefan Löfven; on 21 June the no-confidence motion carried 181 votes to 109, with 51 abstentions — the first successful no-confidence vote against a sitting Swedish prime minister since the procedure was introduced. Löfven was re-elected by the Riksdag on 9 July as a re-mandated Löfven III, without a coalition agreement, and resigned in November 2021.
Beyond the Midsummer crisis Dadgostar tightened V’s profile around housing, welfare-profit caps and distributional questions, and continued the Sjöstedt-era opposition to NATO and EU integration. V kept its Riksdag seats in the 2022 election and entered the Tidö-era opposition with housing, energy, and social policy as principal organising themes.