Abel Chivukuvuku leads the new PRA-JA Servir Angola party which still awaits approval from the Constitutional Court and Bloco Democrático's (BD) Filomeno Vieira Lopes who was previously part of the Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola – Coligação Eleitoral (CASA-CE) coalition...
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More youthful outspoken and pugnacious than his predecessor Isaias Samakuva Adalberto has taken his challenge to another level by striking a deal with two other opposition leaders – Abel Chivukuvuku leader of PRA-JA Servir Angola and Bloco Democrático's Filomeno Vieira Lopes previously part of the Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola - Coligação Eleitoral coalition...
Writers who criticise the government include Celso Malavoloneke (who calls the rule of Dos Santos ‘Eduardismo’) and Filomeno Vieira Lopes...
Helping to organise the network and articulating closely with the churches is Filomeno Vieira Lopes an opposition politician seen as an honest and active intellectual though not a leader...
Opposition activist Filomeno Vieira Lopes and the ageing Holden Roberto of the Frente Nacional para a Libertação de Angola have also joined...
Other established opposition groups such as the Frente de Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda or the Partido de Renovação Social (PRS) in the north-eastern diamond territories rest on narrow regional bases while the articulate but uncharismatic Filomeno Vieira Lopes of the Frente para Democracia (FPD) has little grass-roots support...