A more heavyweight advocate of dialogue is the MPLA's respected former Secretary General Lopo do Nascimento whose advocacy is strong enough to win plaudits from the Luanda-based peace movement and nuanced enough to avoid rebukes from presidential apparatchiks...
Popular moderates such as MPLA ex-Secretary General Lopo do Nascimento and ex-Premier Marcolino Moco favour new talks though they are queasy about dealing with Savimbi...
Former Premier Lopo do Nascimento another moderate Western favourite who quit as MPLA Secretary General when the party turned to a hard line as the Lusaka peace deal collapsed in late 1998 is another possible centre-left candidate; he is moderately wealthy and gets his support from a small section of the Luanda elite...
BCA's shareholders and directors include many out-of-favour reformists and failed moderates from the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola including former central bank Governor Sebastião Lavrador former MPLA Secretary General Lopo do Nascimento and a sacked Prime Minister José França van-Dúnem...
He is increasingly regarded as a rival to the more moderate Lopo do Nascimento for the MPLA leadership...
Manuel Helder Vieira Dias ‘Kopelipa'; and MPLA Secretary General Lopo do Nascimento...
Party Secretary General Lopo do Nascimento would have been a far more credible choice but his bad relationship with Dos Santos (he was exiled to Lubango in the 1980s) precluded this...
Lopo do Nascimento Secretary General of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertaçao de Angola (MPLA) is waiting in the wings for better days...