Democratic Renewal Party (Angola)
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The Democratic Renewal Party (Partido Renovador Democrático) is a political party
in Angola
. The party was founded on December 16, 1990. The founders of PRD had belonged to the leadership of MPLA, but were exiled during the purges that followed a failed coup in 1977. The chairman of the party is Luis da Silva dos Passos.
The PRD suffered some early setbacks. In April 1992 the then chairman of the party, Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, left it. Soon thereafter, in August the same year, the General Secretary Vicente Júnior broke away.
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in Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
. The party was founded on December 16, 1990. The founders of PRD had belonged to the leadership of MPLA, but were exiled during the purges that followed a failed coup in 1977. The chairman of the party is Luis da Silva dos Passos.
The PRD suffered some early setbacks. In April 1992 the then chairman of the party, Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, left it. Soon thereafter, in August the same year, the General Secretary Vicente Júnior broke away.
Source
- http://www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/3ae6a6710.pdf
- Emmanuelle Besson, "Autour du procès de Joaquim Pinto de Andrade. L'Eglise catholique et l'Angola coloniale, 1960-1975", _LFM. Social sciences & missions_, no.12, June 2002, 126p.