Johnsson Fornarve is a board member for Vänsterns internationella forum [sv] (VIF) and was the district president for the Left Party in Södermanland between 2006 and 2012. She has also been a member of the Left party's board of directors between the years of 2010 to 2016.[4]
Political career
Johnsson Fornarve has held several political positions, including being a member of the Linköping municipal council between 1998 and 2002 and of the Oxelösund municipal council between 2006 and 2014. Between 2010 and 2014 she was the chairman of the municipality board for culture and leisure in Oxelösund. She was elected into the Swedish Riksdag after the 2014 general election.[4]
She took over as the left party's defense-political spokesperson in 2017 after Stig Henriksson resigned. She kept her post until the 2018 general election.
She is a member of the Defence Committee and Joint Committee for Defence and Foreign affairs.[4] She is an alternate for the Civil Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Education Committee, and Swedish Council of Europe delegation.[4]