Moderate Youth League
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Swedish Young Conservatives "Moderate Youth League" Moderata ungdomsförbundet |
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| Chairperson | Benjamin Dousa |
| Founded | 1934 |
| Headquarters | Stora Nygatan 30, |
| Membership | 12 624 |
| Ideology | Liberal conservatism |
| European affiliation | Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP) |
| Nordic affiliation | Nordic Young Conservative Union (NUU) |
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Moderate Students Moderata studenter |
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| Chairperson | Ina Djurestål |
| Membership | 2500 members |
| Ideology | Liberal conservatism |
| National affiliation | Moderate Youth League |
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The Moderate Youth League (Swedish: Moderata ungdomsförbundet, MUF), officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It had 12 624 members by the end of 2012. Of the political youth organizations that received financial support from the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs in 2009, it had the highest number of members.
The Moderate Youth League is more libertarian-leaning and more radical than the mother party. It is generally pro-market, pro-American, pro-Israeli and liberal in social issues such as abortion, gay rights and supports legalization of illegal file sharing and alcohol manufacturing for private, nonprofit purposes. Its official ideologies are liberalism and conservatism.
The Moderate Youth League was formed in 1934 as the Young Swedes (Swedish: Ungsvenskarna) as a consequence of the split between the Moderate Party (then the General Electoral Union) and its youth organization, the National Youth League of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges nationella ungdomsförbund) which had turned into an openly pro-Nazi organization. In 1946 the organization changed its name to the Youth Association of the Right (Swedish: Högerns ungdomsförbund). The current name was adopted in 1969.
The Moderate Youth League is led by a national executive committee, elected every two years at the national congress. The President is supported by two vice-chairmen. Normally, members of the national executive have served at district level first. The current chairman, for example, used to be chairman of the district. The national chairman also sits on the national board of the Moderate Party.
Districts follow county borders. The largest one is , followed by Skåne. They maintain a rivalry, sometimes staging competitions on who can recruit the most members. Other large districts include Uppsala and Östergötland.
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