Campsite of Porto sets up first tents in Praça D. João I

Athe first tents began to be set up at 9:20 p.m. today in Praça D. João I, in Porto, an hour after the popular assembly of the housing movement voted to return to camp.

The protesters began to set up the camp today at the site where since October 10 they have protested for the right to housing.

Lusa found on site that more than two dozen tents were already set up at the bottom of the square, while the open microphone phase of the popular assembly was taking place.

In the upper part of the square is also visible police presence and a van at the intersection with the street Sá da Bandeira.

The popular assembly, which brought together about 1,000 people and began at 19:40, in a vote held at 20:20, decided to set up tents in the square where the movement has manifested itself since October 10.

After this vote, the various suggestions to respond to the invitation of the mayor of Porto, Pedro Duarte, were discussed again, and the most voted was to suggest a face-to-face meeting with the mayor at the Municipal Theatre Rivoli.

Arm in the air, the participants decided to suggest the Rivoli looking at the space “as an extension of the square”.

The already usual popular assembly that takes place in Porto on the 21st night began around 19:40, after a musical period and the march that left from the Plaza da Batalha that brought together thousands of people.

In the information that anticipated the vote of the proposals, representatives of the Porto Camp have reported that a site dedicated to this movement was created, https://campadaporto.eu/, where the intention is to make the work orders available, minutes, the newspaper of the Campada, sending proposals as well as an area with the name “Join us.”.

The protesters demand the reversal of the new rental law, the end of demolitions and evictions without an alternative housing, a stop to the purchase of housing by real estate funds, the increase in public housing, the recovery of vacant buildings for housing purposes and ceilings “truely accessible” to income.