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Angola Central Committee
Although the Central Committee was formally subordinate
to the
MPLA-PT party congress, in late 1988 the ninety Central
Committee
members wielded greater influence over party policy. The
Central
Committee assumed control between sessions of the party
congress,
and members of the Central Committee were influential in
setting
the congressional agenda.
Central Committee actions were implemented under the
direction
of its Secretariat, which in late 1988 consisted of nine
department
heads elected from Central Committee. The Secretariat was
responsible for directing day-to-day party work,
collecting and
analyzing information, preparing guidelines, and
recommending
courses of action in accordance with party congress
policy.
Subordinate to the Central Committee Secretariat were
seventeen
specialized auxiliary agencies, which in late 1988
included the
departments of administration and finance, agriculture,
culture and
sports, defense and security, economic and social
policies,
education, energy and communications, executive personnel,
foreign
relations, industry, information and propaganda, legal
system, mass
and social organizations, organization, policy and
ideology, public
welfare, and state agencies. These departments worked in
cooperation with provincial and lower-level party
organizations to
implement Central Committee directives.
Data as of February 1989
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