Anton Foljambe

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Anton Foljambe (b. 1972 in Christchurch) is the Chairman of the National Democrats Party (NDP) in New Zealand. He has participated in various fringe-right organisations in New Zealand. He was the founder of the Conservative Front in 1987, and re-established the National Front in 1990. He was a leading figure in the NF for many years. Strongly focused on making the NF more mainstream, and trying to present it as a conservative political party, he had ideological differences with more hard-line members.

He formed the NDP in 1999, in an attempt to build an ultra-conservative party without any racialist baggage, but the party met with limited success. He supported the efforts of Kyle Chapman during 2004-2006 to make the NF more "respectable", but when Chapman resigned as NF leader, Foljambe saw this as an opportunity to re-launch the NDP. Chapman ran for Mayor of Christchurch on the NDP ticket in 2007.

Foljambe has stood unsuccessfully for parliament and council office on several occasions. He publishes an online viewsletter called "The Conservative Rightist" and is considered the main spokesman for the New Zealand far-right's moderate faction.