• Villy Søvndal

The Organization

SF is organized in a range of regional and local party branches together composing the party. The local units elect the delegates for the national congress, which is the highest SF authority, thus defining SF politics. The congress decisions are carried out by the national executive committee which meets regularly throughout the year.

MPs

Today SF has a group of 23 Members of Parliament. This group is working every day to give SF politics as much impact as possible through legislation in Folketinget.
Party leader and vice leader

Villy Søvndal has been the leader of SF since April 2005. Villy Søvndal is in charge of leading the party and he is the chairman of the national executive committee. Villy Søvndal is also the party profile towards the public. Thor Möger Pedersen was elected vice leader of SF in April 2010 by the national executive committee.

National congress and executive committee

SF’s supreme authority is the national congress. The congress takes place each year and the delegates are elected by the local party units, the national executive committee, and guests from Denmark and abroad. The congress discusses and adopts political programs, political statements and statutes. The congress also elects the majority of the members of the national executive committee.

The national executive committee is constituted of the leader of SF and 20 members, elected on the annual congress. The national executive committee is the highest authority of the party between the national congresses and at least 10 meetings are held each year.
The national executive committee has the following tasks:

  • To lay out the main outlines of the SF policy
  • To lay out the overall frames of the SF organizational work
  • To set budget and membership fees
  • To present the annual accounts at the annual congress
     

Local and regional party branches

The many party branches are the local basis of SF. All members belong in a local unit where the main issues are local and regional politics.

Regional- and constituency organizations

In each of the country's five regions there is a regional party branch. The regional organizations lay out SF’s politics in relation to the regional councils. Regional organizations normally consist of a committee and a board, where the local units are represented.

MPs

SF has two members of the European Parliament, Margrete Auken and Emilie Turunen. They are both part of the green group of the Parliament – which is a group of 35 different green parties from the EU member countries, Emilie being the vice chairman.

SFU

Socialistisk Folkepartis Ungdom (SFU) is the SF youth organization. SFU has more than 3.200 members and is today the biggest political youth organization in Denmark, having extremely active local branches all over the country. SFU is an independent organization with its own leaders, national congress and policy, however, SFU and SF work together closely both on a local and a central basis.