Youth of the People's Party (YPP, cs, Mladí lidovci, ML), known also as the Young Populars (YP) is a political youth

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in the

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for students and young people from 15 to 35 years of age and is the official youth wing of the

Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρισ ...

, often shortened to ('the populars'). YPP was founded in 2012 and has 420 members today. It is based on christian values. The chairwoman of the organisation is Helena Martinková, and the official slogan is "We make the world a better place" (). Youth of the People's Party builds on continuity of the historical organizations of the party such as ''Young Generation the Czechoslovak People's Party'' existed in 1927–1938 and ''Youth of the Czechoslovak People's Party'' existed in the 1945–1948. In June 2021, former organisation Young Christian Democrats existed in 1998–2021 merged with the Youth of the People's Party and making it only youth wing of the party.

List of Presidents

* Petr Hladík, 2012–2015 * Vladimír Hanáček, 2015–2017 * Filip Chvátal, 2017–2019 * Václav Pláteník, 2019–2021 * Radovan Gaudyn, 2021–2022 * Helena Martinková, 2022–present

Board members (2022–present)

YPP President * Helena Martinková YPP First Vice-President for Membership * Patrik Cibere YPP Vice-President for Foreign Affairs (International Secretary) * Vít Mikušek YPP Vice-President for PR * Anna Palánová YPP Vice-President for Projects and Finance * Matěj Kos YPP Secretary General * Tomáš Konečný

Activities

The organisation is active all year round and offers a wide range of events from

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meetings through balls, trips, policy seminars, political workshops, lectures, debates to nationwide conferences. The main goal of all events is personal development of man. The flagship event of the YPP is the Summer Camp, which is held regularly every year.Summer Camp 2018
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References

External links

Official homepage of ''Mladí lidovci''
Politics of the Czech Republic Youth politics 2012 establishments in the Czech Republic Youth wings of political parties in the Czech Republic KDU-ČSL Youth wings of conservative parties {{CzechRepublic-stub