Fernando Manuel Van-Zeller Gomes da Silva (born 20 July 1938) (GCMAIC) is a agronomist and politician from Portugal.
[1] Fernando Gomes da Silva was born in São Jorge de Arroios, Lisbon, in 20 July 1938, son of Virgílio Ramos Gomes da Silva and Laura van Zeller Pereira Palha, of Dutch and German descent.
He was criticised in particular by António Campos, who, as a PS member of the European Parliament, was trying to put the mad cow disease crisis on the agenda against the interests of livestock farmers and butchers.
[7] Also in 1996, the newspaper O Independente published news about alleged favors for Fernando Gomes da Silva as minister, namely the victory, in April 1996, of a company owned by Gomes da Silva's son in a Ministry of Agriculture tender to evaluate the use of EU funds in the agriculture sector in Portugal.
[9] His son, Francisco Gomes da Silva, was Secretary of State for Forestry and Rural Development in the XIX Constitutional Government of Portugal (PSD/CDS-PP) between 2013 and 2014.