National Democrats Party

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New Zealand National Democrats Party
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Leader	Anton Foljambe - Chairman
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Founded	1999 (Reformed 2006)
Headquarters	Christchurch
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Political Ideology	conservative
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Website	www.nationaldemocrats.webs.com
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See also:	Politics & Government Sovereign Governor-General House of Representatives Speaker of the House of Representatives Political parties Prime Minister Cabinet Elections Māori politics Foreign relations

The National Democrats Party (NDP) is a small right-wing political party in New Zealand, formed in 1999 by Anton Foljambe, formerly of the New Zealand National Front, but met with limited success. When Kyle Chapman resigned as leader of the NF in 2006, Foljambe saw this as an opportunity to re-launch the NDP to try and attract more moderate members unhappy with the hardline direction it was taking under its new leadership.

The party describes itself as "New Zealand's only conservative political party". It is generally regarded as crypto-fascist, but not racist. Foljambe has run as an election candidate two or three times, with poor results. Chapman is now Deputy Chairman of the NDP, and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Christchurch in 2007.

The party's policies include strident anti-communism and anti-feminism, the restoration of capital punishment and corporal punishment, and strong national defence. It advocates a "corporatist" constitution, and has a conspiratorial view of world events.

In June 2008 the party announced it had joined forces with the National Front and another fascist organisation, the New Right, to jointly contest the 2008 elections as the National Alliance^[1].