Fernando Medina
 Fernando Medina     ( economist, politician) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 10 March 1973 | |||||||||||
| Nationality | Portuguese | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | • University of Porto • Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão | |||||||||||
| Party | Socialist Party (Portugal) | |||||||||||
Attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019 as Mayor of Lisbon, where he managed Covid lockdowns and aided the military in jabbing almost the entire population. He became Minister of Finance in 2022, until 2024.
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Fernando Medina Maciel Almeida Correia attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019 as Mayor of Lisbon, where he managed Covid lockdowns and aided the military in jabbing almost the entire population. He became Minister of Finance in 2022, until 2024.
Education
He is don of the politician Edgar Maciel Almeida Correia He has a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto. He also holds a master's degree in Economic Sociology from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão.[1] During his time at university, Medina was the President of the Faculty's Students' Union and then the President of the Students' Unions' Federation of Porto.
Career
From 2000 to 2002, Medina was an adviser to Prime Minister António Guterres, first on education and science and later on economic policy.
Following the 2005 national elections, incoming Prime Minister José Sócrates appointed Medina as Secretary of State for Employment and Professional Training, under Minister of Labor José António Vieira da Silva.
In 2013 the then Mayor of Lisbon, António Costa, included Fernando Medina, as number two, in the list for the municipality of the capital. As it was speculated, António Costa left his mandate as mayor of Lisbon — following his election as secretary general of the PS - and Medina took office as mayor of Lisbon on 6 April 2015.[1]
In June 2021, Medina faced calls for his resignation,as it was revealed that over the last decade, Lisbon’s city hall has routinely shared certain personal information of "human rights activists" with their national governments.[2] The practice was revealed by three Lisbon-based Russian dissidents.[3][Scandal sounds a bit contrived. Deep state campaign against Medina?]
Medina lost his re-election bid in the 2021 local elections, and was succeeded as Mayor by Carlos Moedas.[4]
After the Socialist Party's absolute majority victory in the 2022 Portuguese legislative election, he was sworn in as a member of parliament, and two days later, on March 30, 2022, was appointed Minister of Finance of the.[5] His first proposal for the government's 2023 budget, which aimed to further slash the deficit to 0.9% of GDP, was approved by parliament in November 2022.[6]
As of May 2023, CNN discovered that Medina had, as Mayor of Lisbon, offered positions to rival PSD party. As part of the Tutti Frutti scandal, Medina's use of influence caused complications to the 2022-2023 Portuguese political crisis, known by numerous cases of corruption within the PS reign.
Covid 2020-2021
In July 2020, he stated "that mixed teams are developing an 'unprecedented operation' on the ground to verify that confinement is being complied with and that patients have isolation conditions."[7]
In November 2020, the Mayor admitted the possibility of there being "periods of greater lockdowns" due to the covid-19 pandemic and considered that, given the evolution of the numbers, this path will have to be supported. Telling no other information about what the Government intended to do, beyond what is public, Medina said that 'rationally' he even admits that 'other measures may be taken', along with the periods of greater lockdowns.[8]
In March 2021, he and the coordinator of the military-led Portuguese jab task force, vice-Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, were present to monitor the "vaccination" process of teachers.[9]
In June 2021, he pointed out that "Lisbon has a program that I believe is unique, which is the possibility of free testing by everyone — and that is an element of enormous capacity to accelerate the testing, screening and isolation of people, to break or reduce the chain of contact. On the other hand, there is all the effort to accelerate the vaccination process."[10]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2019 | 30 May 2019 | 2 June 2019 | Switzerland Montreux | The 67th Bilderberg Meeting |
References
- ↑ Jump up to: a b http://observador.pt/2015/03/31/fernando-medina-quem-e-o-novo-presidente-da-camara-de-lisboa/
- ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/lisbon-portugal-dissidents-personal-data-repressive-regimes/
- ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/fernando-medina-lisbon-russia-dissidents-personal-data-sharing/
- ↑ https://www.publico.pt/2021/09/27/politica/noticia/resultado-autarquicas-carlos-moedas-eleito-presidente-camara-lisboa-1978875
- ↑ https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/governo/fernando-medina-e-o-novo-ministro-das-financas
- ↑ Sergio Goncalves (25 November 2022), Portugal's parliament passes 2023 budget bill on final reading Reuters.
- ↑ https://expresso.pt/politica/2020-07-14-Fernando-Medina-insiste-e-preciso-agir-rapido-na-resposta-a-covid-19
- ↑ https://expresso.pt/sociedade/coronavirus/2020-11-17-Covid-19.-Fernando-Medina-admite-periodos-de-maior-confinamento-e-apoia-medida
- ↑ https://diariodistrito.sapo.pt/fernando-medina-e-vice-almirante-henrique-gouveia-e-melo-presentes-na-vacinacao-dos-professores/
- ↑ https://www.publico.pt/2021/06/24/politica/noticia/fernando-medina-criterios-recuar-desconfinamento-avaliados-1967719
