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Feb 09, 1954 Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal 70 years old
Portuguese politician
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About Ana Gomes
- Ana Maria Rosa Martins Gomes , better known as Ana Gomes, (born 9 February 1954 in Estremoz) is a Portuguese politician, who suspended her career as a diplomat to enter party politics in 2003.
- From 2004 until 2019, she served as a Member of the European Parliament.
- (Portuguese Socialist Party member of the European Socialist Party) She is married with one daughter, three stepchildren and six grandchildren. Ana Gomes is currently a City Council member of Sintra. She has been a career diplomat since 1980 and served in the Portuguese Missions at the UN in New York and Geneva, and also in the Embassies in Tokyo and London.
- Between 1999 and 2003, she was Head of Mission and Ambassador in Jakarta, where she played an important role both in the process leading up to the independence of East Timor and in the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Portugal and Indonesia.In the European Parliament, her main areas of activity were: migration, human rights, security and defence, international relations, gender issues and development.
- In 2010 she signed the Spinelli Group manifesto supporting a federal Europe.
- Gomes faced accusations of antisemitism for inviting anti-Israel speakers to the European Parliament and allegedly referring to Jewish organizations as a "perverse lobby".Her activism and membership in the migration focused NGO Friends of Europe were commented upon in an interview by the Romanian prime-minister, Viorica Dancila as 'totally uninspired'.
- Two requests made by the Deputy Attorney General of Portugal in 2014 and 2017 to waive Ana Gomes’ parliamentary immunity with respect to criminal proceedings against her have both been decided against by the European Parliament.
