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Christian Heritage New Zealand | |
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Leader | John Allen (1989–1990) Graham Capill (1990–2003) Ewen McQueen (2003–06) |
President | Bill Van Rij, Henk Geerlofs, Nik Gregg (2003–6) |
Founded | 15 July 1989 |
Dissolved | 3 October 2006 |
Ideology | Christian democracy |
The Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand (CHP, known for a time simply as Christian Heritage New Zealand) was a New Zealand political party espousing Christian values and conservative views on social policy. Although it never won seats in an election, it came close to doing so in 1996 as part of the Christian Coalition and briefly had a member in Parliament.
On 3 October 2006, the Party said it would disband to allow "new things to arise in Christian politics in New Zealand". This came after a highly publicised scandal which resulted in its leader, Graham Capill, going to jail for committing sex crimes against children.[1] [2]