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This article lists the presidents of Angola since the establishment of the office of president in 1975. The current president is João Lourenço . He assumed the office on 26 September 2017.
José Eduardo Van-Dúnem dos Santos (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ eˈðwaɾðu ðuʃ ˈsɐ̃tuʃ]; 28 August 1942 – 8 July 2022) was an Angolan politician and military officer who served as the second president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and ...
This is a list of heads of government of the Democratic People's Republic of Angola. Angola is a country in southern 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. Since the adoption of a new constitution, early in 2010, the politics of ...
As of 2021, there is a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Angola. The term limit has not been met by any president yet. [2] The Angolan president is elected by double simultaneous first-past-the-post voting for the same five-year term as the assembly, renewable once. Each participating party nominates a candidate as top of ...
Holden Álvaro Roberto, President of the Joint National Council for the Revolution: FNLA Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, President of the Joint National Council for the Revolution: UNITA 11 February 1976: Counter-government suppressed by Angolan government: 1979: Counter-government restored: 1979 to 22 February 2002: Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, President ...
Pages in category "Presidents of Angola" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
José Eduardo dos Santos (born 1942), President of Angola 1979–2017; Efigênia dos Santos Lima Clemente, member of the Pan-African Parliament; Aguinaldo Jaime (born 1954), current Deputy Prime Minister of Angola; Almerindo Jaka Jamba (born 1949), politician, former leader of UNITA; Maria Monteiro Jardin, Angolan minister for fisheries, 1994 [12]
In November 2017, Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of former President José Eduardo dos Santos, was fired from her position as head of the country's state oil company Sonangol. [26] In August 2020, José Filomeno dos Santos, son of Angola's former president, was sentenced for five years in jail for fraud and corruption. [27]