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Angola Party Congress
Theoretically the supreme body within the MPLA-PT, the
party
congress was actually controlled by top party officials.
Following
its first regular session in 1977 and an extraordinary
session in
1980, the party congress was expected to convene once
every five
years. Most of the 630 delegates to the 1985 Second Party
Congress
were elected from among provincial committees, with most
members of
the Central Committee and all members of the Political
Bureau as
delegates. The party congress was responsible for setting
the
party's overall policy direction, confirming the Political
Bureau's
choice of party chairman and president, and electing the
Central
Committee members, who retained the decision-making
authority of
the party congress between sessions.
Data as of February 1989
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