Fernando Gomes

Fernando Manuel dos Santos Gomes (born 13 April 1946) is a Portuguese politician who served as Mayor of Porto from 1989 until 1999, and as Minister Adjunct and of Internal Administration from 1999 until 2000.

Biography Fernando Gomes was born in Vila do Conde in 1946.

He was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in the 1980 legislative election. He was appointed as Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism in 1983 under Mário Soares' Central Bloc government. In 1986 he became a Member of the European Parliament, serving until 1993.

Gomes resigned as Mayor in 1999 after being invited to become Minister Adjunct and of Internal Administration under the government of António Guterres. He resigned shortly after taking office in order to run again for Mayor of Porto in the 2001 local election, but he ended up being defeated by Rui Rio. Afterwards, he returned to Parliament until 2005, when he left politics.