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Protesters in Portugal have returned to central public squares to continue demonstrations against the soaring cost of living and escalating housing crisis, shortly after police dismantled their encampments and detained 55 individuals.
CNN Portugal commentator Jorge Silva Carvalho analysed the protests held in Lisbon and Porto regarding the housing crisis, questioning the immediate involvement of legal representation in inorganic movements.
Lisbon police have warned housing rights protesters that their camp at Rossio square is unauthorised and must be cleared, while hoping to resolve the standoff without force. Despite the dispersal deadline passing, demonstrators formed human chains to protect their tents, maintaining their protest against current housing policies amid fears of an eviction similar to that in Porto.
The decision on whether protesters should take down their tents was practically the only topic at tonight's popular assembly.
The presenter was out on the street in Lisbon this Saturday night in solidarity with the housing protests.
In the early hours of Saturday at the Rossio encampment, the activist argued for the immediate removal of the tents. However, the popular assembly's vote did not reach that conclusion, leaving the situation open for this Sunday, weather permitting.
The standoff over housing has become a nightmare and exposed the government's weariness, leaving the minister sounding like a robot. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Democratic tsunami finished off Donald Trump.
A standoff is developing between Lisbon City Hall and the movement for the right to housing. Carlos Moedas is demanding that the protesters' tents be removed from Rossio Square, where he intends to install the Christmas market. Activists report that the Municipal Police were on-site to request the removal of the “encampment,” and have decided to take the protests to the Web Summit. We are updating all developments regarding the protests here.
Demonstrators are calling for accessible housing solutions while re-establishing protest camps across the country.
The Prime Minister guaranteed this Tuesday that he does not undervalue demonstrations regarding housing, but that these must be reconciled with the right to “order” and “peace and quiet”, appealing for “models of violent protests” not to be imported. Luís Montenegro, who also announced that he will meet with the leaders of the PS and Chega, hopes “that everyone...
Doctors, nurses, and firefighters have signed a statement against the police charges on Sunday in Rossio and Porto, where around 100 tents were removed and dozens of people were injured.
The statement to the nation comes after weeks of demonstrations and so-called encampments in Lisbon and Porto protesting against the cost of housing, which have already resulted in several police charges.
The Lisbon Campers refused today to vacate Rossio to allow for the installation of the Christmas Market, proposing to the City Council that they move the event to another location, but, according to the local authority, merchants in the Baixa district want to keep it in the square.
The Lisbon encampment returned to Rossio this Monday to celebrate the decision of the Administrative Court of Lisbon, which ruled that the 12:30 AM curfew for demonstrations is not 'absolute and automatic'.
Demonstrators gathered in Rossio to celebrate a judicial ruling related to housing issues.
On a day when ‘the feeling in the air’ is that the ugliness of recent days is being brought to an end, Lisbon’s right to housing protesters are celebrating the The post ‘Victorious’protesters return to Rossio this evening at 7.30pm appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The morning passed without incident in Lisbon and Porto, following concerns regarding potential protests related to the housing crisis.
Protests involving police and violence are, therefore, a light and a hope for this left: a sign that someone is emerging who is capable of giving up the comfort that destroyed it.
Thousands of people gathered again at Rossio, where tension with the PSP police gave way to horns and applause. In Porto, protesters voted to spend another night in tents, following police charges in both cities early this morning.
A witness told journalists that members of the PSP began fining motorists because they considered that “honking during a demonstration was not admissible.”
Protesters are outraged with the PSP after authorities fined drivers for honking in solidarity with the protests.
The mayor says he is available to meet with “a delegation of participants in the demonstrations regarding the housing problem” and that the meeting could take place at 6:00 PM at City Hall.
Demonstration for housing rights where participants express the need for their voices to be heard.
After three warnings in the early hours of this morning to demonstrators gathered in the country’s two main cities in protest to the difficulty of accessing housing, police officers once The post Dozens more injuries as police confront ‘right to housing protesters’ in Lisbon and Porto appeared first on Portugal Resident.
In Porto and Lisbon, after three warnings to protesters demonstrating due to difficulties in accessing housing, police officers forced the removal of individuals from 4:30 AM onwards. A new forceful intervention, one week later, in the same locations.
Following three warnings to protesters gathered in the country's two main cities to demonstrate over housing access difficulties, police officers forced the removal of individuals around 4:30 AM. Another heavy-handed intervention took place one week later at the same locations.
In Porto, protesters at the Encampment are also standing their ground. Additionally, the PSD secretary-general says that parties “must set aside selfish interests” regarding housing problems.
Many protesters remained throughout the night in Praça D. João I in Porto and Rossio in Lisbon, continuing to refuse to remove the tents they placed in these city locations in protest against the lack of access to housing.
