Paulo Kassoma

António Paulo Kassoma ( born June 6, 1951 in Rangel ) is an Angolan politician and currently President of the Parliament of the country.

The one born in Rangel, a municipality in the metropolitan region Luanda Kassoma studied electrical engineering.

From 1978 to 1979 Kassoma was Assistant Secretary of Defense for weapons and technology in the government of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola ( MPLA ). Later, he was from 1988 to 1989 Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, then Minister of Transport and Communications 1989-1992. He was transferred on 9 April 1992 to the post of Minister of Territorial Administration.

Later Kassoma was governor of the province of Huambo and First Secretary of the MPLA in the province of Huambo. On 11 February 2002 offered Kassoma white farmers in Zimbabwe who had lost their farms as a result of land reform, the opportunity to participate, to settle on 10,000 hectares of abandoned farmland in Huambo and grow corn. According Kassoma this could contribute to Huambos economic development. On the Fifth Ordinary Congress of the MPLA in December 2003 Kassoma was elected to the Politburo.

On September 26, 2008 Kassoma was determined by the won by the MPLA parliamentary elections as the successor of Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos from the Politburo of the MPLA as prime minister.

The new Constitution of Angola in February 2010, the Office of the Vice President was replaced by the prime minister. The office of prime minister was abolished. Kassoma was then President of the National Assembly.