Project Venezuela

{{short description|Political party in Venezuela}}

{{Expand Spanish|topic=gov|Proyecto Venezuela|date=December 2015}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Proyecto Venezuela

| native_name = Project Venezuela

| colorcode = Yellow

| logo = Logo of Project Venezuela.svg

| logo_size = 175px

| ideology = Liberal conservatism
Christian democracy

| leader = Henrique Salas Römer

| foundation = 1995

| headquarters = Valencia, Carabobo

| national = Democratic Unity Roundtable{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/internacional/2015/12/07/actualidad/1449484635_471219.html|title=¿Quiénes forman en Venezuela la Mesa de Unidad Democrática?|newspaper=El País|date=7 December 2015|last1=Meza|first1=Alfredo}}

| regional = Union of Latin American Parties{{Cite web|url=http://uplalatinoamerica.org/partidos-miembros/|title=Partidos Miembros|access-date=2020-07-06|archive-date=2022-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331204506/http://uplalatinoamerica.org/partidos-miembros/|url-status=dead}}

| international = International Democracy Union{{Cite web|url=https://www.idu.org/members/|title = Members | International Democracy Union|date = February 2018}}

| country = Venezuela

| position = Centre-right{{Cite web | url=http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/gt/20101101032704/12Lacabana.pdf | title=Petróleo y hegemonía en Venezuela - La construcción de un proyecto nacional democrático-popular en el siglo XXI | language=es | trans-title=Oil and Hegemony in Venezuela - Building a Popular-Democratic National Project in the 21st Century}}

| seats2_title = Seats in the National Assembly

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|2|277|hex=#00BFFF}}

}}

Project Venezuela ({{langx|es|Proyecto Venezuela}}) is a center-right{{Cite web|url=https://nuso.org/articulo/la-derecha-en-america-latina-y-su-lucha-contra-la-adversidad/|title=La derecha en América Latina y su lucha contra la adversidad | Nueva Sociedad|date=November 2014}} political party in Venezuela.

At the legislative elections, 30 July 2000, the party won seven out of 165 seats in the National Assembly of Venezuela. The legislative elections of 2006 were boycotted by the party. The leader is Henrique Salas Römer who was a Presidential Candidate in the 1998 elections.

Its current president is Salas Römer's son, Henrique Salas Feo, former governor of Carabobo. It is a full member of the International Democracy Union (IDU).

For the 2017 and 2018 elections, the party withdrew from participating, saying that the CNE's process was too demanding.{{cite news|title=Proyecto Venezuela suspende su participación en el proceso de validación|url=http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2017/03/26/proyecto-venezuela-suspende-su-participacion-en-el-proceso-de-validacion/|access-date=27 March 2017|work=La Patilla|date=26 March 2017|language=es-ES}}

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