Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola

▪ political organization, Angola
Portuguese  Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) 

      Angolan (Angola) political party.

      The MPLA, founded in 1956, merged two nationalist organizations and was centred in the country's capital city of Luanda. From 1962 it was led by Agostinho Neto (Neto, Agostinho), who eventually became Angola's first president. It fought the Portuguese for the independence of Angola in cooperation, but often in conflict, with the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) (UNITA). The MPLA declared the People's Republic of Angola in November 1975, which was not recognized by all governments. The MPLA, supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union, and UNITA, supported by South Africa and the United States, continued to fight for control of the country; the FNLA pulled out of the struggle in the late 1970s.

      At a national congress in 1977, the MPLA refashioned itself as a Marxist-Leninist party and added the words Party of Labour (PT) to its name. Neto died in Moscow in 1979 and was succeeded by José dos Santos (dos Santos, José), who gradually shifted the party from its Marxist-Leninist stance to one more conducive to establishing relations with Western countries.

      The MPLA was the only legal party of Angola until multiparty elections were held in 1992. UNITA continued to battle Angolan government forces until early in 2002. An agreement to end the hostilities was signed in April 2002. The MPLA was victorious in the multiparty parliamentary elections held on Sept. 5–6, 2008, the first since 1992. Although there were some reports of fraud and intimidation, the elections were deemed valid by international observers.

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