User:JohnArmagh/Heads of State of Angola

List of Heads of State of Angola

Affiliations:-

FNLA = Frente Nacional de Libertação para de Angola (National Front for the Liberation of Angola) - northern regionalist, estd.1957 as UPNA: Unio das Populacoes do Norte de Angola)

MPLA-PT = Movimiento Popular da Libertação de Angola - Partido de Trabalho (Popular Liberation Movement of Angola-Labour Party) - authoritarian/extreme leftist, primarily ethnic Kimbundu (renounced marxism 26 March 1991, only legal party Nov 1975-1991

PDL = Partido Democratico Liberale (Liberal Democatic Party)

UNITA = União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) - authoritarian/conservative, primarily ethinic Ovimbundu

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)