Sweden Democratic Youth

Sweden Democratic Youth
Sweden Democratic Youth; Sverigedemokratisk ungdom
Chairperson	Jessica Ohlson
Founded	1993/1998
Headquarters	Riksgatan 1, Stockholm
Ideology	Swedish nationalism; Ultranationalism; National conservatism; Euroscepticism; Anti-immigration
Mother party	Sweden Democrats; (until 2015)
Website	www.sverigedemokratiskungdom.se

Sweden Democrat Youth (Swedish: Sverigedemokratisk Ungdom, SDU) was the youth league of the Swedish political party Sweden Democrats until 12 September 2015, when the party announced that they would break with the youth league after an extended conflict with its mother party amid allegations that members had collaborated with the fascist Nordic Youth organization. The leading members of SDU, amongst others leader Jessica Ohlson and former leader Gustav Kasselstrand, would then go on to form the right-wing populist party Alternative for Sweden in March 2018.

The youth league was founded in 1993 as an independent youth league to its parent party. The original name was Sverigedemokraternas Ungdomsförbund (Sweden Democratic Youth Association), but the organization was soon renamed Sverigedemokratisk Ungdom. The youth league was disbanded in 1995 due to rampant problems with neo-Nazism in the ranks, but was reestablished as an independent organization in 1998.

On 1 October 2015, the Sweden Democrats founded a new youth league, Young Swedes SDU.[1][2]

Chairmen of the SDU

Jimmy Windeskog (1998–2000)
Jimmie Åkesson (2000–05)
Martin Kinnunen (2005–07)
Erik Almqvist (2007–10)
William Petzäll (2010–11)
Gustav Kasselstrand (2011–15)
Jessica Ohlson (2015–)

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References

"Här är SD:s nya ungdomsförbund" (in Swedish). Expressen. 2015-10-01.
"This is YoungSwedes". Young Swedes SDU. Retrieved 2019-07-22.

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[1] "Här är SD:s nya ungdomsförbund" (in Swedish). Expressen. 2015-10-01.

[2] "This is YoungSwedes". Young Swedes SDU. Retrieved 2019-07-22.

Youth wings of political parties in Sweden by Riksdag representation
Parent party represented	Moderate Youth League Young Christian Democrats Centre Party Youth Liberal Youth Young Greens Social Democratic Youth League Young Left Young Swedes SDU
Parent party unrepresented	National Democratic Youth Revolutionary Communist Youth Communist Youth Young Pirate Swedish Anarcho-syndicalist Youth Federation Sweden Democratic Youth (unaffiliated)