José Manuel da Mata Vieira Coelho (born 22 July 1952) is a Portuguese politician.

[1] He was a substitute deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira for the New Democracy Party, taking office in 2008.

He became famous for the incident in which he showed a Nazi flag to the assembly as a protest against the Social Democratic Party refusing to commemorate the Carnation Revolution,[2] among several other episodes as well.

[4] He won 4.5% of the vote, coming fifth, which was considerably better than expected or forecast by pre-election polling.

In February 2017, José Manuel Coelho asked for political asylum in the Principality of Pontinha, which was granted by D. Renato Barros I.