The Christian Democratic Youth (Danish: Kristendemokratisk Ungdom), formerly the Youth of the Christian People's Party (Kristelig Folkepartis Ungdom), is the youth league of the Christian Democrats, a political party in Denmark. Magnus Rothmann is the party's chairman since april 2024.
Kristendemokratisk Ungdom (abbreviated KDU) is the political youth organization associated with the Christian Democrats. The association was founded in october 2010 as Young Christian Democrats, after the Christian Democrats had won a seat in the Danish Parliament, and changed to its current name at the general meeting in 2018.
The Christian Democrats had been without a youth organization from 2007-2010, when the former Christian Democratic Youth broke away and became the think tank Cura Ungdom in connection with the election defeat in 2007. Kristian S. Larsen was appointed as chairman at the founding general meeting and re-elected at the general meeting in 2011. Aron Henning was elected chairman at the general meeting in 2012. In 2013, Isabella Arendt Laursen was elected chairman.
In 2016, Isabella Arendt Laursen chose to step down as national chairman, in connection with the national meeting, and then Jacob Hellwing, without opposing candidates, was elected as chairman.
At the general election in 2011, 14 parliamentary candidates from the then Young Christian Democrats were on the list of the Christian Democrats; the party and the candidates were not elected.
In October 2020, Hanna-Maria Smed Molte Lyng was elected as chairman, with no opponents.
In April 2024, Hanna-Maria Smed Molte Lyng resigned as chairman. Magnus Pedersen Rothmann is acting chairman until the upcoming extraordinary national meeting.
Sweden Democrat Youth was the youth league of the Swedish political party Sweden Democrats until 12 September 2015.
The International Young Democracy Union (IYDU) is a global alliance of centre-right political youth organisations and the youth wing of the International Democrat Union.
The Social Democrats is a social democratic political party in Denmark. A member of the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Social Democrats have 50 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament, Folketing, and three out of fourteen MEPs elected from Denmark.
KDU-ČSL, often shortened to lidovci, is a Christian-democratic political party in the Czech Republic. The party has taken part in almost every Czech government since 1990. In the June 2006 legislative election, the party won 7.2% of the vote and 13 out of 200 seats; but in the 2010 election, its vote share dropped to 4.4% and they lost all of its seats. The party regained its parliamentary standing in the 2013 legislative election, winning 14 seats in the new parliament, thereby becoming the first party ever to return to the Chamber of Deputies after previously dropping out.
The Christian Democrats are a political party in Denmark. The party was founded in April 1970 as the Christian People's Party to oppose the liberalization of restrictions on pornography and the legalization of abortion. The party renamed itself to its current name in 2003. Originally, the party was not considered part of the European Christian-democratic tradition, and it was better known as a religious conservative party.
The Social Democratic Youth of Denmark is the national youth wing of the Danish Social Democrats. It is not to be confused with Frit Forum, which is for those in higher education, and whose membership is not restricted by age, unlike the DSU. The organisation is autonomous from the Social Democrats and as such is entitled to formulate its own policies and devise its own campaigns.
Venstres Ungdom is the youth wing of the Danish liberal Party Venstre.
The Danish Social Liberal Youth, is a political youth organization in Denmark, built around the ideals of social liberalism. Radical indicates a connection to 19th and 20th century radicalism, a connection shared with the organisation's mother party, the Danish Social Liberal Party.
The Young Greens are the youth wing of the Swedish Green Party, founded in 1986.
The Young Christian Democrats is the youth organization of the Christian Democrats in Sweden.
Charlie Andreas Weimers is Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden since 2019. He is a member of the Sweden Democrats, part of European Conservatives and Reformists.
Per Jimmie Åkesson is a Swedish politician and author, serving as leader of the Sweden Democrats since 2005. He has been a member of the Riksdag (SD) for Jönköping County since 2010. He previously served as leader of the Sweden Democratic Youth from 2000 until 2005.
Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP) is an umbrella organization of European political youth organisations and is the official youth wing of the European People's Party. YEPP brings together 64 centre-right youth political organisations from 40 countries all over Europe. Founded in 1997 by the 2006–2014 Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt, YEPP has developed into the largest political youth organisation in Europe.
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 5 June 2019 to elect all 179 members of the Folketing; 175 in Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The elections took place ten days after the European Parliament elections.
Stig Grenov is a Danish teacher and politician. On 27 October 2012 he was elected the chairman for the Christian Democrats, with no opposing candidates. He stepped down in 2019 and Isabella Arendt became the party's new leader.
Isabella Arendt Laursen is a Danish politician who was the leader of the Christian Democrats from 2019 to 2022. Arendt lives in Copenhagen and is currently studying political science at Copenhagen University.
Young Swedes have been the youth section within the Sweden Democrats since 1 October 2015. National spokesperson since October 2022 is Emil Eneblad. According to Jimmie Åkesson, the party leader of the Sweden Democrats, the wing's main goal is to "attract young people to vote for the party". The section itself says that its main task is to "prepare young people to become future Sweden Democratic politicians." They use Engelbrektsbågen as a symbol and describes itself as democratic and socially conservative with a nationalist outlook.
Sara Magdalena Skyttedal is a Swedish politician previously of the Christian Democrats party. She was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.
An election of the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic was held on 18 December 1996. Petr Pithart was elected the first President of the Senate. Pithart was a candidate of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-CSL), and his election was opposed primarily by the Civic Democratic Party.
Sigrid Friis Frederiksen is a Danish politician who is the former chairman of Radikal Ungdom. She is also a blogger for Altinget.dk and BT. She also sits on both the executive committee and the main board of the Danish Social Liberal Party. In September 2023, she was chosen to be her party's lead candidate for the 2024 European Parliament election in Denmark.
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