sentences:  Aslak was very active in student demonstrations at the University of Bergen during the 1990s and sat on the university board in 1996.He was the party leader of Red Electoral Alliance between 1997 and 2003, and sat in the city council in his home city Stavanger between 1999 and 2003.He was the top candidate for Storting for Rogaland in the 1997 election and Oslo in the 2001 election, but his party failed to win any seats.