Social Democratic Youth () is the youth organisation of the Social Democratic Party of Portugal and it is commonly known by its initials, JSD. Founded by Francisco Sá Carneiro, 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 education, entrepreneurship, employment, housing, environment, addiction 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 No.PortraitNameStartEndLeader of the PSD1António Rebelo de Sousa(b. 1952)1 June 19753 December 1978Emídio GuerreiroFrancisco Sá CarneiroAntónio Sousa FrancoJosé Menéres PimentelFrancisco Sá Carneiro2António Lacerda de Queiroz(b. 1953)3 December 197821 October 1982Francisco Pinto Balsemão3Pedro Augusto Cunha Pinto(b. 1956)21 October 19825 November 1986Nuno Rodrigues dos SantosCarlos Mota PintoRui MacheteAníbal Cavaco Silva4Carlos Coelho(b. 1960)5 November 198611 March 19905Pedro Passos Coelho(b. 1964)11 March 199017 December 1995Fernando Nogueira6Jorge Moreira da Silva(b. 1971)17 December 19955 September 1998Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa7Pedro Duarte(b. 1973)5 September 199829 September 2002José Durão Barroso8Jorge Nuno de Sá(b. 1977)29 September 200220 March 2005Pedro Santana Lopes9Daniel Fangueiro(b. 1979)20 March 200522 April 2007Luís Marques Mendes10Pedro Rodrigues(b. 1979)22 April 200728 November 2010Luís Filipe MenezesManuela Ferreira LeitePedro Passos Coelho11Duarte Marques(b. 1981)28 November 201016 December 201212Hugo Soares(b. 1983)16 December 201214 December 201413Simão Ribeiro(b. 1986)14 December 201415 April 201814Margarida Balseiro Lopes(b. 1989)15 April 201826 July 2020Rui Rio15Alexandre Poço(b. 1992)26 July 202023 June 2024Luís Montenegro16João Pedro Louro(b. 1994)23 June 202424 May 202617João Pedro Luís(b. 2002)24 May 2026Incumbent
External links Official homepage of JSD
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