José Manuel Ferreira Fernandes (born 26 July 1967) is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party.

[2] Earlier in his career, he was Mayor of Vila Verde in northern Portugal (1997–2009).

[5][6] In this capacity, he was the parliament's rapporteur on the 2012 and 2016 annual budgets as well as the European Fund for Strategic Investments.

[citation needed] In 2020, he served as the Parliament's co-rapporteur (alongside Valérie Hayer) on a successful motion to assign new tax revenues to the budget of the European Union to repay its joint borrowing of 750 billion euros ($888 billion) for economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic.

[7] In addition to his committee assignments, Fernandes was part of the parliament's delegations to Brazil, for relations with Mercosur and to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.