Lopo do Nascimento

Lopo Fortunato Ferreira do Nascimento (born 10 June 1942) is an Angolan politician. He served as the first Prime Minister of Angola from 11 November 1975 to 9 December 1978 and was Secretary-General of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

Nascimento was later Minister of Territorial Administration; after resigning from that post, he was replaced by Paulo Kassoma on 9 April 1992.^[1] He was elected as MPLA Secretary-General by the party's Central Committee in 1993.^[2]

He was the 66th candidate on the MPLA's national list in the September 2008 parliamentary election.^[3]^[4] He won a seat in that election, in which MPLA won an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly.^[4]

References

^ "Apr 1992 - Election date - Cabinet changes", Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume 38, April, 1992 Angola, Page 38851.
^ Africa Research Bulletin (1993), Blackwell, page 10,964.
^ "Eleições: Lista integral dos candidatos do MPLA, antigo PM Marcolino Moco fora, nova cara Akwá", Angola Xyami, July 5, 2008 (Portuguese).
^ ^a ^b List of deputies elected in the 2008 election, CNE website (Portuguese).

Prime Ministers of Angola

Lopo do Nascimento · Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem · Marcolino Moco · Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem · Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos · Paulo Kassoma

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Name	Nascimento, Lopo do
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Date of birth	10 June 1942
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