Office1: | Provincial Commissioner of Benguela |
Term Start1: | 1979 |
Term End1: | 1981 |
Predecessor1: | Garcia Vaz Contreiras |
Successor1: | Kundi Paihama |
Office2: | Minister of State Security |
Term Start2: | 1981 |
Term End2: | 1986 |
Predecessor2: | Kundi Paihama |
Successor2: | Kundi Paihama |
Office3: | Secretary-General of the MPLA |
Term Start3: | 12 December 2003 |
Term End3: | 27 August 2016 |
Predecessor3: | João Lourenço |
Successor3: | Paulo Kassoma |
Birth Date: | 30 December 1942 |
Birth Place: | Bengo, Angola |
Nationality: | Angolan |
Party: | MPLA |
Julião Mateus Paulo is an Angolan politician and former Secretary-General of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). He is widely known by his wartime nom de guerre, Dino Matrosse.[1]
He succeeded João Lourenço as MPLA Secretary-General at a December 2003 party congress.[2]
Paulo was the fourth candidate on the MPLA's national list in the September 2008 parliamentary election.[3] [4] He won a seat in this election, in which MPLA won an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly.[4]