Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

Angola: Opposition PLD Leader Dies in Lisbon

7 January 2009

Luanda — The president of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (PLD), Anália de Victória Pereira, died on Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal, victim of an illness, a partisan source has announced.

PLD's secretary for Information, Artur Sapalo, announced it without giving further details on this matter.

According to the source, she died in a time that she was undertaking routine consultations in Portugal and in a recovery stage.

Anália de Victória Pereira was the only woman leading a political party in Angola.

Tagged: Angola, Central Africa, Southern Africa

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