The National Democratic Party () was a neo-Nazi party founded in Finland by Pekka Siitoin in the summer of 1978.Häkkinen, Iitti 2022 p.153

Background Siitoin's party Patriotic Popular Front had been banned in 1977, and KDP was founded to continue its work. Siitoin met the future party secretary Olavi Koskela in prison in 1978. Koskela was a Stalinist who was serving his sentence for a string of firebomb attacks, but was radicalized into Nazism under the guidance of Siitoin.

Activity KDP ran its own program on the cable-tv Kylä-TV for some time in the 1980s.Walpo 4/19, Tulkoon sinun valtakuntasi, Pekka Siitoin? Turun yliopiston Politiikan tutkimuksen klubi ry. In 1996, Siitoin ran for the city council of Naantali with the slogan "Elect Siitoin the Nazi to the council" and was the fifth most popular candidate, but was not elected due to the D'Hondt method as he was running on his own list.Pohjola, Mike (toim.): Mitä Pekka Siitoin tarkoittaa? Savukeidas, 2015. , pp. 23

KDP members were behind the arson of Punanurkka, a communist party youth meeting place in Lappeenranta.

Program KDP was notable for being the first party in Finland to support universal basic income. KDP opposed capitalism and communism according to its program, supported returning Karelia to Finland and total ban on immigration, except for kindred Finno-Ugric people. KDP also supported fascist corporatism and banning harmful religious organizations, although Siitoin himself was arguably a cult leader, leading multiple groups blending Nazism and satanism.Keronen, Jiri: Pekka Siitoin teoriassa ja käytännössä. Helsinki: Kiuas Kustannus, 2020. p.121, 122Kansallis-demokraattisen Puolueen Periaateohjelma, 1993

Affiliations Nils Mandell, leader of the street organization of the Nordic Reich Party collaborated with KDP and introduced them to the World Union of National Socialists, to which KDP was accepted.Karcher, Nicola; Markus, Lundström (2022). Nordic Fascism Fragments Of An Entangled History. Routledge. P. 177. KDP also maintained contacts with the KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and J. B. Stoner in the United States and Fédération d'action nationale et européenne in France.Keronen (2020) pp.29, 41-42Pohjola (2015), pp. 119 KDP was also in contact with some terrorist groups like Manfred Roeder's German Action Group responsible for multiple firebomb attacks in Germany that killed Vietnamese refugees and Jan Øregård of Norwegian Front that bombed a mosque and a communist event.Keronen (2020) pp.29, 120

KDP belonged to the umbrella organization called the National Union Council, which was founded in 1994 and was chaired by Väinö Kuisma. The other member organizations were the Aryan Germanic Brotherhood,Häkkinen, Perttu; Iitti, Vesa (2022). Lightbringers of the North: Secrets of the Occult Tradition of Finland. Simon and Schuster. . p. 162 the Union of Aryan Blood and the Finnish National Front.

The group also received material from William Luther Pierce's National Alliance and sold a Finnish translation of the Turner Diaries.Kotonen, T. (2017). Äärioikeisto Suomessa kylmän sodan päättyessä : Kansallinen radikaalipuolue ja angloamerikkalaiset vaikutteet. Historiallinen aikakauskirja, 115(3), 317-331. KDP also published material from Edward Reed Fields' The Thunderbolt, who Siitoin had met in a Nazi rally in Diksmuide.Nordling, Iiro: Pekka Siitoinista Jussi Halla-ahoon: Antikommunismista ja natsismista maahanmuuttokriittisyyteen. 2014.

KDP disseminated propaganda materials received from the National Socialist Liberation Front (NSLF) as leaflets. The NSLF took credit for several bombings, arsons, and shootings. This fanatical and militant propaganda gave impression of KDP as a group idolizing violence rather than as a serious political organization it wanted to be seen as.Maahanmuutto, rodullisuus, kommunismi ja kapitalismi Pekka Siitoimen näkökulmasta 1970-1980- luvuilla. Turun Yliopisto. Salomäki, Iida (19.12.2024) https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202501092159Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-57601-0. p. 41.

Headquarters The party main headquarters were a manor called Krappula in Naantali. The swastika flag flown on the property was visible to the presidential residence of Kultaranta.Pohjola, Mike (toim.): Mitä Pekka Siitoin tarkoittaa? Savukeidas, 2015. KDP also had another manor in Vehmaa and offices in Turku.

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