Newcomer to the Left Party pokes spokesperson in the Riksdag election

The 30-year-old is a newcomer in political contexts and has only been a member of V for just over a year.

He was in ninth place on Dalarna's parliamentary list - but received 648 personal votes and thus pushed aside V's climate policy spokesperson Kajsa Fredholm, who loses her seat.

Mohamed Abdukardir Ali states that he had no campaign or election materials of his own.

V's group leader in Borlänge Matts Hammarqvist tells Expressen that Ali has not been active for so long, and that he "actually doesn't really know who it is".

Later, he backed away from that statement in a comment to TV4 Nyheterna.

- I certainly know who it is, but it's no one I know personally or had anything to do with, Hammarqvist tells the channel.

- There are lots of people who know him in the party.

Amanda Dalmans, district chairman of V in Dalarna, tells SVT Nyheterna at the same time that Ali is "absolutely not" unknown in the party.

- I look forward to working together with him, says Dalmans.

Mohamed Abdukardir Ali was denied Swedish citizenship two years ago. According to Expressen, he did not meet the requirement for an honorable way of life and the reason was his debts to the Crown Bailiff. It concerned unpaid taxes, student loans and private loans.

Ali writes to Expressen that debt settlement is currently underway and that he must do the right thing for himself.

That a person unknown to the party can be cross-checked in the Riksdag receives criticism from several quarters.

"Is there no damn order in the party," writes former V member Amineh Kakabaveh on Facebook.

"You can almost understand if the Norwegians get worried about Sweden's security and hesitate to let V into the government," she continues.

The chairman of the Left Party in Borlänge, Erik Buller, writes to Expressen that Ali participated in the election campaign.

"I have no reason to believe that he will not be an excellent representative for us in the Riksdag," writes Buller.