The Liberal Reform Party was a rural based political party in New Zealand. It was the successor to the Country Party that contested the 1969 election.
History.
The party was launched as a revival of the decades earlier Country Party by the New Zealand Free Enterprise Movement in 1968 feeling that voters needed a genuine free enterprise choice in elections as, in their view, New Zealand was caught between monopoly business interests and overly empowered trade unions. It changed its name to Liberal Reform in 1970. The party criticised [[Robert Muldoon" as a "socialist dictator" and campaigned for the abolition of taxation.
The Liberal Reform Party main goals were individual freedom, self reliance and maximised free enterprise. In addition it had other policy platforms it campaigned on:
The party supported sporting links with apartheid South Africa.
The party planned to run 40 candidates at the [[1972 New Zealand general election|1972 election]], but stood only 16. It performed poorly, winning only 0.29% of the vote with all candidates losing their deposits. It did not stand at the [[1975 New Zealand general election|1975 election]] election.
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