Emergent People (Spanish: Gente Emergente, GE) is a Venezuelan centrist political party, founded on June 22, 1991 by Fernando Alvarez.
[2] GE identifies itself as “a political community that aspires to be a useful organizational channel for the transformation of Venezuelan society from an ethical perspective, based on humanist heritage, on a historical liberating Christian and ancestral analysis of our people” according to its official blog.
In 2011, they announced their participation in the 2012 Democratic Unity Roundtable presidential primary, supporting the candidacy of Pablo Pérez Álvarez, the governor of the state of Zulia to be the sole candidate for the opposition bloc to face Hugo Chávez on October 7 in the 2012 presidential elections.
Following the defeat of Pablo Pérez Álvarez in the MUD primaries, they announced their support, along with the other parties of the Democratic Unity Roundtable for the candidacy of Henrique Capriles Radonski against the re-election of Hugo Chávez in the 2012 presidential elections.
They participated in the MUD primaries for the 2015 parliamentary elections, only presenting two candidates, among them, was the Jesús Gómez, nominated to be a governor of the state of Anzoátegui.