António Domingos Pitra Costa Neto (born 12 February 1958) is an

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

n politician, professor and lawyer. Neto joined the

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (, abbr. MPLA), from 1977–1990 called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan social democratic political party. The MPLA fought against the Po ...

(MPLA) in 1974. He has been a member of the MPLA's central committee since 1998. Since joining the party Neto has been involved in the legal system, both in the civilian and military systems as well as assistant lecturer in law. In 1991 Neto was involved in the negotiations that preceded the

Bicesse Accords The Bicesse Accords, also known as the Estoril Accords, laid out a transition to multi-party democracy in Angola under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission. President José Eduardo dos Santos of the MPLA and Jonas Savimb ...

, which temporarily ended the Angolan civil war. Since 1992, Neto has been the Minister of Public Administration, Employment and Social Security. Neto was the third candidate on the MPLA's national list in the September 2008 parliamentary election."Eleições: Lista integral dos candidatos do MPLA, antigo PM Marcolino Moco fora, nova cara Akwá"
, Angola Xyami, July 5, 2008 .
, CNE website . He won a seat in this election, in which MPLA won an overwhelming majority in the

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Article on Pitra Neto, 12 December 2003
1958 births Angolan lawyers Members of the National Assembly (Angola) Living people MPLA politicians {{Angola-politician-stub