Project Venezuela ( es, Proyecto Venezuela) is a

center-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and mer ...

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Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

. At the

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, 30 July 2000, the party won seven out of 165 seats in the

National Assembly of Venezuela The National Assembly ( es, Asamblea Nacional) is the legislature for Venezuela that was first elected in 2000. It is a unicameral body made up of a variable number of members, who were elected by a "universal, direct, personal, and secret" vo ...

. The legislative elections of 2006 were boycotted by the party. The leader is

Henrique Salas Römer Henrique Salas Römer (born 17 April 1936 in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan economist from Yale University, politically active in Venezuela since 1983. Political career He was elected to congress as a member of the COPEI ...

who was a Presidential Candidate in the 1998 elections. Its current president is Salas Römer's son,

Henrique Salas Feo Henrique Fernando Salas Feo (born December 14, 1960) is a Venezuelan politician, President of the centre-right party Project Venezuela, and the former governor of Carabobo State. He is the son of the former Carabobo Governor and 1998 presidentia ...

, former governor of

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. It is a full member of the IDU. For the 2017 and 2018 elections, the party withdrew from participating, saying that the CNE's process was too demanding.

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