Five possible candidates for V's party leader post

Esbati is educated as a business economist at Stockholm School of Economics. Ali Esbati joined the Young Left in 1992, and in May 2001 he was elected as the Youth League's union chairman. At the 2014 parliamentary election, Esbati was elected as an ordinary member of parliament.

Dadgostar has studied the law program at Stockholm University. She joined the party as a 14-year-old because she "liked Young Left's feminist campaigns." In 2018, Dadgostar was appointed by the Left Party's party board as deputy party leader.

Dinamarca studied, among other things, at the journalist line at Strömbäck's folk high school, and was a member of the Culture Committee during the periods 2002-2006. On February 4, 2018, Rossana Dinamarca announced that she did not intend to run for re-election as Member of Parliament, because she considered herself "systematically invisible by her own party".

Snecker has completed a master's degree in political science at Linköping University, and was elected to the Swedish Parliament in connection with the 2014 election.

Andersson is the economic-political spokesman for the Left Party. On July 6, 2011, Andersson announced that she would be a candidate for party leader.