Thomas de Jesus Fernandes

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Thomas de Jesus Fernandes (born October 22, 1974 in Schwerin ) is a German politician and member of the AfD . Since 2015 he has been a member of the state parliament , social policy spokesman, sports policy spokesman, media policy spokesman and, since 2019, deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Life

Profession and entrepreneurial activity

De Jesus Fernandes is a trained building construction worker and worked as a bricklayer. He later founded his own scaffolding company, which he ran until 2012. From 2012 to 2016 he worked as an office manager.

At the end of 2015, the Schwerin tax office filed for insolvency against him, but this was rejected by the competent local court for lack of assets .

politics

De Jesus Fernandes has been a member of the AfD since 2013 . From 2014 to March 2017 he was district chairman of the AfD district association Mecklenburg-Schwerin. During this time he was also a member of the district council of Ludwigslust-Parchim . After the state elections , De Jesus Fernandes became a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group for social affairs, sport, tourism and media on October 4, 2016. Since May 2019 he has also been a member of the Schwerin city ​​council .

In the course of the internal party disputes before the AfD's Essen convention in July 2015, de Jesus Fernades, who is counted on the right-wing fringe of the party, hit the headlines for the first time: In April of that year, he published a call for a boycott of the German retail group Rewe as the main sponsor of 1. FC Cologne . From this he demanded an apology for the behavior of two fans of that soccer club towards the AfD boss at the time, Bernd Lucke . Just four weeks later, Jesus Fernandes took up a position on the wing around Frauke Petry and agitated against the party founder Lucke and Hans-Olaf Henkel .

Also in the spring, de Jesus Fernandes was co-operator of an anonymously drafted resolution for the upcoming federal party conference, in which u. a. “The political-bureaucratic and legal promotion or active mass media advertising for contraception, abortion and homosexual behavior” is described as “incompatible with the vital interests of Germans”, and spread their polemic text on. Among other things, the application also called for the deletion of equality and anti-discrimination laws as well as all positions for equality officers and chairs for gender studies . In response to this, the "gay and lesbian communication and advice center" in Schwerin demonstratively banned the self-confessed homosexual from entering the home.

With an election campaign for the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 with a view of the age of the 67-year-old prime minister and SPD's top candidate Erwin Selle ring expressed in a press release pauschalierenden provocation outclassed de Jesus Fernandes approaches, according to the chairman of the DGB district north even In the election on September 4, 2016, de Jesus Fernades won a mandate as a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament, tenth on the AfD's state list .

In March 2020, de Jesus Fernandes was excluded from a session of the state parliament after criticizing the coverage of the Hanau attack in a debate on the ZDF Broadcasting Council occupation and claiming that the other parties had approved the murders shortly before the Hamburg election in order to gain political capital to beat. SPD parliamentary group leader Thomas Krüger spoke of a "inhuman insinuation". De Jesus Fernandes tried to instrumentalize the victims of a racially motivated murder attempt and to rob them of their dignity. The sanction of the exclusion from the session in no way reflects the enormity of the statements made by de Jesus Fernandes.

So far, De Jesus Fernandes has been the victim of allegedly politically motivated attacks three times. This involved damage to property at his place of residence, loosened wheel bolts on his car and property damage to his constituency office.

Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry

In October 2017, de Jesus Fernandes became a member of the committee of the parliamentary investigation committee set up at the request of the AfD parliamentary group in the Schwerin state parliament , "which regulates the funding structure, the funding process and the granting practice for grants from state funds as well as the use of these state funds by the LIGA association Central associations of the free welfare in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania registered association to clarify in the period from 2010 to 2016 ". As early as 2018, he called for the resolution of a welfare promotion law, which later found a majority in the state parliament through a draft law by the state government on October 30, 2019. On October 2, de Jesus Fernandes commented on the draft law as follows: The obligation to be transparent is only applicable from an individual grant of 25,000 euros. [...] In addition, only the state associations of AWO , DRK and Co. would have to disclose their funds. Most of the funding would, however, be given directly to the many district associations in smaller amounts. [...] It is precisely here that most of the funding flows into and that is where business operations take place .

At the end of 2019, de Jesus Fernandes and the AfD parliamentary group filed a criminal complaint against the former state chairman of the workers' welfare in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Ulf Skodda. Skodda is said to have made several false statements before the investigative committee.

As reported by the Nordkurier in February 2020, de Jesus Fernandes accused the chairman of the investigative committee, Jochen Schulte ( SPD ), of having "delivered informants from AWO circles to the knife and silenced them". He also alleged that Schulte, as chairman of the committee, had prevented a full investigation of the scandal by leaking anonymous information about allegedly dubious consulting contracts to Matthias Siems, the managing director of AWO Rostock. Schulte denied these allegations. De Jesus Fernandes demanded that Schultes be recalled as chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry.

Becoming known of chat logs

In August 2017, minutes of a chat among AfD members, including Thomas de Jesus Fernandes, became known. In these minutes, the publication of which led to the resignation of the AfD deputy parliamentary group leader in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament, Holger Arppe , de Jesus Fernandes Arppe replied to his contribution “I can now explain why revolutions have always been so bloody. You just have to freak out and first send all the red-green shit onto the scaffold. And then the guillotine up and down that the rind cracks! "With the words" You already know that this red-green shit is only willing vicarious agents despite its abnormality. "( Sic )

On another input from Arppe: “He believes that it is almost too late, since the organizational lead of the left can hardly be made up. And if the AfD also fails, then it's good to have a cupboard full of rifles and an ammunition box in the garage. "Replied de Jesus Fernandes with the words:" He is right! "

According to the protocols, de Jesus Fernandes did not object to multiple further fantasies glorifying violence against political opponents, which were expressed by Arppe and other members of the chat, but did not react.

Private

Jesus Fernandes has been a partner since 2008 and lives in Schwerin .

Web links

  • Member of the parliament for the 7th electoral term on the website of the State Parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Footnotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Parliament MV. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Ludmann: Schwerin AfD boss has trouble with the tax office. ndr.de, November 17, 2015, archived from the original on November 19, 2015 ; accessed on September 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Election of the district councils of the districts as well as the city council of Schwerin and the citizenship of Rostock in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on May 26, 2019. (PDF) Retrieved on May 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Combat candidates in the new AfD parliamentary group . On September 9, 2016 on nordkurier.de
  5. ↑ Dietmar Neuerer: Crisis party is ridiculed for calling for a boycott against Rewe . On April 22, 2015 on handelsblatt.com
  6. ↑ Thomas Volgmann: Schwerin AfD brings out Nazi club . On May 21, 2015 on svz.de
  7. ↑ Claus Leggewie: Günther Uecker: The drama of the washed up . On September 2, 2016 on fr-online.de
  8. ^ Norbert Blech: AfD members want to ban "advertising" for homosexuality. queer.de, April 24, 2015, accessed September 7, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Schwerin: Homo Center issues gay AfDler house ban. queer.de, January 12, 2016, accessed September 6, 2016 .
  10. ↑ AfD top functionary makes older people lousy. nordkurier.de, August 12, 2016, accessed on September 6, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Judith Köneke: The conspicuous history of the Mecklenburg AfD MPs. ksta.de, September 5, 2016, accessed on September 6, 2016 .
  12. ↑ AfD politicians referred to the hall after comment on terror in Hanau. www.welt.de, March 11, 2020
  13. ↑ IN SCHWERIN: Private apartments attacked by AfD MPs. Nordkurier, December 27, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Udo Roll: Welfare law not strict enough? Schweriner Volkszeitung, October 2, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Andreas Becker: WRONG STATEMENT? AfD files criminal charges against ex-Awo boss. Nordkurier, October 23, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Awo committee of inquiry chairman rejects allegations. Welt.de, February 4, 2020, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Andreas Becker: AFD-VORWURF: Cover-up cartel prevents clarification of the Awo affair. Nordkurier, February 20, 2020, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  19. ↑ "He's right" , on taz.de, accessed on September 2, 2017.
  20. ↑ Case Arppe: The Silence of Members of Parliament , on ndr.de, accessed on September 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Jesus Fernandes, Thomas de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin