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National Democratic Youth
Nationaldemokratisk Ungdom
Chairperson Andreas Nyberg Founded February 2, 2002 Mother party National Democrats Website www.ndu.nu National Democratic Youth (Swedish: Nationaldemokratisk Ungdom, NDU) is the youth organization of the Swedish political party National Democrats (Swedish: Nationaldemokraterna).
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History
NDU was formed during spring 2002 and has taken a strong stance against multiculturalism, communism, homosexuality and feminism striving for a nation characterized by Nordic culture, tradition and national solidarity.
In 2003 the organisation performed a violent attack against the Gay pride-festival in Stockholm, where they began throwing bottles and beating the participators of the parade, this later resulted in the imprisonment of the chairman Marc Abramsson on the terms of battery and rioting.
NDU now suffered from internal conflicts and started a period of reconstruction when Andreas Wallentin replaced the leadership. A year later he resigned to have time for studies and to work as a writer for the party's newspaper Nationell Idag (National Today). Robert Almgren took over and continued the reformation, leading it out of all the setbacks and making it a prominent and rapid-growing youth organisation again, creating new divisions all over the country.
Organisation
The members of NDU concentrate most of their work on the local level, in their respective municipal organisations. These divisions are grouped together in regional districts with an organizer controlling the district's combined effort. The number of members is kept secret for safety reasons.
A congress is held annually to elect a chairman as highest authority of the youth league. In turn he appoints organizers and representatives for the regional groups. All the representatives together form a national advisory council. In consultation between the chairman and the council the political manifesto and stance in factual matters is decided, in accordance with the parent party's ideological guidelines.
List of chairpersons
- Marc Abramsson, 2001–2004
- Andreas Wallentin, 2004–2005
- Robert Almgren, 2005–2006
- Patrik Forsén, 2006–2007
- Andreas Nyberg, 2007–present
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