Daniel Riazat

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Daniel Riazat
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Riazat in 2015
Member of the Riksdag
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 September 2014
Personal details
Born1991 (age 34–35)
Party Future Left (since 2025)
Other political
affiliations		 Left Party (until 2025)

Daniel Riazat (born 1991) is a Swedish politician who serves as member of Parliament since 29 September 2014. Formerly part of the Left Party, he represented the constituency of Dalarna County from 2014 to 2022 and since 2022 he represents Stockholm County.

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Early life and career

Riazat was born in Tehran in 1991. [1] His parents were both active in the communist movement and decided to flee Iran after visits from the security services. Riazat initially came to Sweden in 2000 with his mother and sister. They were given a deportation order in 2004 but later granted residency after they were joined by Riazat's father. [2] [3] [4] He began studying for a degree in political science but dropped out before completing it. [5] In 2012, Riazat was involved in an altercation with neo-Nazis during an anti-racism meeting in Ludvika in which he was physically assaulted. Three people were arrested in connection with the assault. [6]

Member of the Riksdag

Riazat was elected as member of the Riksdag in September 2018 and September 2022. [7] [8] He has also served as a municipal councilor in Falun since 2010. [9] [10] [11] During Almedalen Week in 2022, Riazat posed with the Kurdish PKK's flag while speaking at a rally for the Left Party; this caused a stir since the PKK is classified as a terrorist group in Sweden. [12]

In 2024, Riazat came under criticism from Moderate Party politician Fredrik Kärrholm for allegedly refusing to shake a hands with opposition politicians after a debate in the Riksdag, which is often customary. That same year, he also came into conflict with Richard Jomshof. The row started after Riazat said that he wanted to move out of an apartment building allocated to Riksdag members after discovering Mattias Karlsson lived in the building and called the Sweden Democrats a neo-Nazi party. Jomshof responded on Twitter ("Daniel Riazat thus wanted to move away from Mattias Karlsson. Personally, I think he should move from Sweden") and Riazat later claimed Jomshof's comment led to racist abuse on social media. [13] [14] [15]

In 2025, Riazat announced he was leaving the Left Party and becoming an independent politician in the Riksdag after he and Lorena Delgado Varas had party exclusion cases initiated against them. [16] Together, they founded the Future Left party. Riazat claimed that the Left Party was becoming a "doormat for the Social Democrats" under leader Nooshi Dadgostar. [16]

References

  1. ↑ "Daniel Riazat". Riksdagen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Riazat: Människor kom med nyckelknippor och sa här har ni" . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  3. ↑ "Från flykting till förtroendevald" . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "Politikerna i riksdagen: Daniel Riazat, Vänsterpartiet" . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "Daniels resa till riksdagen" . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "Daniel Riazat misshandlad" . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "List of members elected to the Riksdag in 2014" (PDF). Altinget (in Swedish). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "Riksdagens snabbprotokoll 2022/23:1". Riksdagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "Riksdagens protokoll 2018/19:1". Sveriges riksdag (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  10. ↑ "Här är Sveriges nya riksdag – ledamot för ledamot". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 19 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  11. ↑ "Invalda ledamöter 2022". Riksdagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 19 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "Riazat (V) posed with the PKK's terrorist flag" . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  13. ↑ "Jomshofs angrepp på V-ledamoten: "Borde flytta"" . Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  14. ↑ "This week's row: The wine witch, the sossefetto and Daniel Riazat" . Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  15. ↑ "Jomshof's attack on the V member: "Should move"" . Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  16. 1 2 Ekspong, Ida Palm; Ohlin, Jonas; Ingmo, Daniel (24 August 2025). "Daniel Riazat och Lorena Delgado Varas lämnar V – blir kvar i riksdagen" [Daniel Riazat and Lorena Delgado leaves V - remains in the Riksdag]. SVT (in Swedish).
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