Luc Adamo Matéta

Luc Daniel Adamo Matéta (born October 30, 1949[1]) is a Congolese politician and the President of the Union for the Reconstruction and Development of the Congo (URDC).

In 2007, he succeeded the first lady Antoinette Sassou Nguesso as president of the CCN National Coordination Committee of projects financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

[3] He worked at the statistics department of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance,[1] and was an early member of the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI), led by Bernard Kolélas.

[1] After Kolélas reached an agreement with President Pascal Lissouba,[3] Matéta was one of the four members of the opposition who were appointed to the government on 23 January 1995;[4] he was named Minister-Delegate for the Budget and the Coordination of Financial Administration.

[9] After the 1997 civil war, as fighting continued between the government of President Sassou Nguesso and "Ninja" rebels, Matéta returned to Congo-Brazzaville in 1998[9] and renounced armed struggle in 1999.

[14] Matéta stood as a URDC candidate in Mfilou, the seventh arrondissement of Brazzaville, in the May–June 2002 parliamentary election,[15][16] He was then appointed as High Commissioner for Civic Instruction and Moral Education on 11 October 2002.

[18] Together with the General Movement for the Reconstruction of Congo, led by Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma, Matéta's URDC formed the Coalition of Center Parties (CPC) in April 2008.