Social Democratic Youth ( pt, Juventude Social Democrata) is the youth organisation of the

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and it is commonly known by its initials, JSD. Founded by

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, the JSD has become an essential basis of the PSD itself. Its activity is recognized in election campaigns, with a crucial position in terms of mobilization and as a "laboratory of ideas of the party". While defending the values affirmed by the Social Democratic Party, the JSD is a structure with its own identity and, therefore, works in an autonomous manner in respect to the party. Nowadays, the JSD has mainly based his political activity in areas such as

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, Employment,

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, Environment,

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and Childhood Obesity. In addition to this, the JSD defends a constitutional review of the Portuguese Constitution, and advocates European integration, employment, culture and environment, generational issues in which the JSD focuses its intervention.

List of presidents

* António Rebelo de Sousa (May 1975 – Dec 1978; General Secretary) * António Lacerda de Queiroz (Dec 1978 – Nov 1982) * Pedro Pinto (Nov 1982 – Oct 1986) * Carlos Coelho (Oct 1986 – Mar 1990) *

Pedro Passos Coelho Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho (; born 24 July 1964) is a Portuguese politician and university guest lecturer who was the 118th prime minister of Portugal, in office from 2011 to 2015. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) b ...

(Mar 1990 – Dec 1995) *

Jorge Moreira da Silva Jorge Manuel Lopes Moreira da Silva GOIH (born 24 April 1971 in Vila Nova de Famalicão) is a Portuguese engineer and politician of the Social Democratic Party serving as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, ...

(Dec 1995 – Sep 1998) * Pedro Duarte (Sep 1998 – Sep 2002) * Jorge Nuno Sá (Sep 2002 – Mar 2005) * Daniel Fangueiro (Mar 2005 – Apr 2007) * Pedro Rodrigues (Apr 2007 – Nov 2010) * Duarte Marques (Nov 2010 – Dec 2012) * Hugo Soares (Dec 2012 – 14 Dec 2014) * Simão Ribeiro (Dec 2014 – Apr 2018) *

Margarida Balseiro Lopes Ana Margarida Balseiro de Sousa Lopes (born 24 September 1989) is a Portuguese politician. She was a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal as a member of the liberal-conservative Social Democratic Party (PSD) and a former president ...

(Apr 2018 – Jul 2020) * Alexandre Poço (Jul 2020 - Present)

External links

Official homepage of JSD

References

Youth wings of political parties in Portugal International Young Democrat Union Social Democratic Party (Portugal) {{Portugal-poli-stub