Editing Sweden Democrats (section)

=== Internal structure ===
The Sweden Democrats are made up of 16 districts of local party associations with executive boards. Each district consists of a number of municipal associations, which may include one or more municipalities. In municipalities that are not covered by a municipal association, the party organises its members as ''working groups'' instead. The SD also has a centralized national board permanently chaired by the party leader and party secretary and whose other members are elected by the SD's membership base.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sd.se/partistyrelse/|title=Partistyrelse|website=Sverigedemokraterna}}</ref>

Within the SD there is a women's branch [[SD-Women]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sdkvinnor.se/om-sd-kvinnor/|title=Om oss|publisher=SD-kvinnor|language=Swedish|access-date=31 August 2014}}</ref> and an affiliated youth-wing [[Young Swedes SDU]] which was founded in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jessica Ohlson ny SDU-ordförande|url=http://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/jessica-ohlson-ny-sdu-ordforande|author=Mathias Gerdfeldter|newspaper=SVT Nyheter |date=12 September 2015|access-date=2 October 2015}}</ref> The SD's first youth-wing was founded in 1993 as the ''Sweden Democratic Youth Association'' before it was renamed the [[Sweden Democratic Youth]] (SDU). The old SDU was disbanded in 1995 due to extremism problems before it was reconstituted in 1998. Many prominent SD politicians including party leader Jimmie Åkesson were members of the SDU. In 2015, the SD announced it would expel the leadership of the SDU from the mother party and officially sever ties with it due to ongoing controversies with its members. The party subsequently created the Young Swedes SDU as a replacement.<ref>{{cite web|title=SD-konfliktens ABC|url=http://expo.se/2015/sd-konfliktens-abc_6853.html|author=[[Daniel Poohl]]|date=10 April 2015|access-date=2 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kasselstrand: "Interndemokrati existerar inte" [Video]|url=http://www.expressen.se/tv/nyheter/kasselstrand-interndemokrati-existerar-inte/|date=12 September 2015|access-date=2 October 2015}}</ref>

Following the 2010 Swedish general election, the SD created its own security unit which by 2014 consisted of an estimated 60 people. SD states that the unit is intended to handle internal issues within the party, including cybersecurity, to marshal public events and to encourage members to report external threats to the police.<ref>{{cite news |author=Hennel, Lena |date=22 November 2013 |title=SD bygger upp egen säkerhetsorganisation |trans-title=The SD creates its own security organisation |url=http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/sd-bygger-upp-egen-sakerhetsorganisation_8755894.svd |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 March 2014 |newspaper=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |language=sv}}</ref><ref name="Åkesson kritisk">{{cite web |title=Åkesson kritisk mot säkerheten |url=http://www.tv4.se/nyheterna/klipp/%C3%A5kesson-kritisk-mot-s%C3%A4kerheten-2481654 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208062757/http://www.tv4.se/nyheterna/klipp/%C3%A5kesson-kritisk-mot-s%C3%A4kerheten-2481654 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |access-date=28 March 2014 |publisher=[[TV4-nyheterna]]}}</ref> The SD has argued the security wing is necessary due to threats against SD politicians and highlighted a 2012 report by the [[Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention]] which found one in two of every local SD politician had experienced some form of threat, harassment or physical violence, and that SD legislators were statistically twice as more likely to be threatened than members of other parties. SD reported 95 instances of threats or violence against elected officials to the police and Riksdag security in 2012.<ref name="Åkesson kritisk" /><ref>{{cite web|access-date=29 March 2014|date=December 2012|publisher=BRÅ|title=Politikernas trygghetsundersökning 2012|url=http://www.bra.se/download/18.22a7170813a0d141d21800058601/1363787633610/2012_14_PTU_politikernas_trygghetsunders_kning_webb.pdf}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>