National Democrats Party
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The National Democrats Party (NDP) was a small right-wing political party in New Zealand, formed in 1999 by Anton Foljambe
Anton Foljambe
Anton Foljambe is a former Chairman of the National Democrats Party in New Zealand. He has participated in various fringe-right organisations in New Zealand. He formed the NDP in 1999 and stood for parliament in that election. He has subsequently stood an additional two or three times, but has...

. It has met with limited success.

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. Kyle Chapman
Kyle Chapman
Kyle Chapman is a former national director of the New Zealand National Front . He was also a candidate for Mayor of Christchurch, first for the National Front, and then for the National Democrats Party....

 became Deputy Chairman of the NDP, and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Christchurch in 2007, pulling approximately 1% of the vote.

The party's policies include strident anti-communism
Anti-communism
Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and the beginning of the Cold War in 1947.-Objections to communist theory:...

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.

Foljambe resigned from the party in 2007. The party now appears to be defunct. Its website is no longer operational.
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