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[3] ALAS, however, did not obtain the necessary number of votes in the following 2010 Colombian Legislative Election to maintain its legal status as a valid political party.

[1] In the 2002 Elections, Araujo Castro was elected to the Senate, and in 2003, Hernando Molina Araújo, who would later be implicated in the parapolitics scandal alongside Castro and suspended from office, reached the governorship of Cesar under the Colombian Liberal Party with the support of the ALAS.ALAS decided to separate from the Colombian Liberal Party to support the government of President Uribe and, in 2005, began a process of merging political forces with senators Elmer Arenas and Leonor Serrano de Camargo, but failed after they joined the Union Party for the People.

However, two years later in 2007, Leonor Serrano joined ALAS Team Colombia to run as their candidate for mayor in Bogotá from 2008 to 2011, as the Union Party for the People had rejected endorsing him.

[citation needed] Team Colombia was a political movement founded by the former mayor of Medellín and former minister Luis Alfredo Ramos in the mid-1980s within the Colombian Conservative Party.

[8][9] At the end of 2006, then senator Álvaro Araújo Castro, who was the head of the party in parliament, was called to testify in an investigation into multiple politician's alleged links with Colombian paramilitarism, specifically the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).

[11] His seat was then occupied by Senator Antonio Valencia Duque from the Antioquia Department, an ally of Luis Alfredo Ramos Botero, who was also under investigation for links with paramilitaries.