Gudrun Schyman

Gudrun Schyman (b. 1948) is chairwoman of Swedish Vänsterpartiet (Left Party[?]), the renamed and reformed Swedish Communist party. She joined the party through the Marxist-Leninist Fighting Organisation[?] and became chairwoman in 1993. Noted for her populism and repeatedly scandalous behaviour in public, while drunk, Schyman eagerly claims to be an alcoholic. She has reformed the Communist party to include feminism in its program; in other areas the party has changed less since the fall of the Soviet Union. Gudrun Schyman has even though the scandals been the most successful leader of Vänsterpartiet though all times, getting about 10% of the votes in the last three elections intead of around 4%, which the party used to get before the 1990-ies. She was forced to resign in January 2003, because of a scandal about her false tax duductions.