Camps meet with President of the Republic on Friday

Acampadas do Porto and Lisbon, as well as the platform Casa Para Viver, have a meeting with the President of the Republic on Friday at 10 a.m., today revealed the Porto movement.

In a popular assembly, it was revealed that the meeting, initially scheduled for Thursday, was rescheduled for Friday, in the Palace of Belém, with the President, António José Seguro, attending the request for postponement of the protesters, given the bad weather.

In a popular assembly that took place on Rua da Madeira, next to São Bento Station, because it was not possible inside, the representation committee was approved.

There will be nine people from Porto, another nine from Lisbon and still seven from Casa Para Viver, also revealed.

From Porto, they will follow representatives of different working groups, including legal, protesters, including a Mother for the Camp, and also three technical experts, cases of architects Bernardo Amaral and Joana Moreira, in addition to social worker António Brito Guterres.

Before more than half a hundred people, it was also voted to send a letter in which the movement for housing shows no opposition to a request from an association of Bolhão merchants to move the Christmas carousel, which the House of Porto wants to install in D. João I Square with agreement of protesters, to Alexandre Braga Street, next to the market.

On Tuesday, the popular assembly agreed to share Praça D. João I, where it has developed the protest since October 10, with a carousel, a Christmas tree and a small Christmas train.

The protesters accepted one of the proposals that the House of Porto had made on the same day, in the event that the holiday schedule could only occupy up to 25% of the space, giving up the municipality to install the ice rink initially programmed and announced.

The current protests against the housing crisis began in Porto on October 10 and expanded to Lisbon, but have also motivated concentrations in other cities.

The PSP's action to disperse the campgrounds and remove the tents in Rossio, in Lisbon, and in Praça D. João I, in Porto, led to dozens of arrests and caused dozens of wounded, motivating criticism from various quadrants.

The Public Prosecutor has, however, asked the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of the 1974 rule that a demonstration has the time limit at 12:30.

The protesters demand, among other things, the reversal of the new rental law, a stop to housing purchase by real estate funds and “truely accessible” roofs to income.