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The MPLA-PT (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
- Partido do Trabalho, that is, Popular Movement for the Liberation of
Angola - Labor Party), is the ruling party with 129 MPs in the Angolan Parliament (total number:
227). It's flag is the well-known red and black horizontal bicolour with
a yellow star in the centre.
Jorge Candeias, 28 Nov 2001
image sent by Jason Saber, 04 Sept 2019
This image was shown on the MPLA Facebook page as being the flag it used in 1961
Jason Saber, 04 Sept 2019
MPLA was created in December 1956 with a flag of horizontal blue, red and black
stripes with a yellow stylized sun on the red stripe. At a
conference in Tunis in January 1960, the MPLA and UPA (Uniao dos Povos
d'Angola - United Peoples of Angola) merged to create the
FNLA, and operated
under a single "national" flag as Angola Livre, where the triangles symbolize
the two movements becoming united and the yellow sun meaning independence and
the red is the blood shed in the struggle for independence.
In 1963, the old MPLA separated from FNLA and at the Congress of Conakry in January 1964, the MPLA adopted the flag which is in still in use (red over black, with a yellow star in the center).
Jaume Olle, 09 Sept 2019