Somos Región Colombia
Somos Región Colombia Partido Somos Región Colombia | |
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| Founded | 2005 (ALAS Team Colombia) 2015 (Council of State) 2017 (National Electoral Council) |
| Dissolved | 2018 |
| Merger of | Alternative for Social Advance and Team Colombia |
| Preceded by | ALAS Team Colombia |
| Ideology | Social Conservatism Anti-Communism Christian Confessionalism Regionalism Previously: Liberalism Uribism Conservatism |
| Political position | Right wing to Far-Right |
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| Partido Somos | |
The Somos Región Colombia Party (Spanish: Partido Somos Región Colombia), or simply Partido Somos, sometimes We are Colombia (Somos Colombia), was a Colombian political party and successor to the ALAS Team Colombia party, a center-right political alliance born from the merging of the Liberal Alternative for Social Advance (ALAS) party, founded by Álvaro Araújo Castro, and the Team Colombia party, which ran in the March 2006 Legislative Elections. ALAS Team Colombia was a part of a coalition of parties that supported the 2002-2010 Álvaro Uribe Vélez campaign and government. The alliance between the two parties ended in September 2009, after a mutual agreement to dissolve; ALAS retained its legal status as a party, while Team Colombia members mostly joined the Colombian Conservative Party. 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. But, in 2017 it was able to restore its legal status as the Partido Somos Región Colombia.
Since early 2018, together with the Democratic Center, Colombia Justa Libres, and MIRA parties, Somos had been a part of the Great Alliance for Colombia (Spanish: Gran Alianza por Colombia), which campaigned to elect then senator Iván Duque Márquez as President of Colombia. The major Colombian Liberal Party and Colombian Conservative Party would both later joined the alliance, and Duque Marquez won the 2018 Presidential Election, serving until 2022.