The House of Porto undertook to accept one of the hypotheses presented by the Porto Camp, including the possibility of removing the ice rink from Praça D. João I, according to the parties involved.
© Lusa
10/11/2026
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Lusa
A Porto Chamber today undertook to accept one of the various hypotheses given to the Port Camp in relation to D. João I Square, including maintaining the demonstration and the removal of the ice rink, confirmed the parties today.
“ We will now be sent the powerpoints with the clue schemes and so on. And it is on our side to decide what we are going to do, yes, completely ", I told reporters Leonor Figueiredo, from the Porto Camp, on the way out of a meeting in the House of Porto, which was attended by the mayor, Pedro Duarte.
According to a statement sent by the municipality, in a version also confirmed by the protesters who met and counted on the presence of lawyers in the Chamber, three possible scenarios were presented, assuming the authority that “will accept the option suggested by the protesters, thus waiting for their expression of will”.
The three options are “to move the camp to another place, provided it does not collide with other Christmas activities”, “to allow the demonstration to stay in Praça D. João I, without any municipal intervention” in space, and “to reconcile the camp with a smaller Christmas schedule, in two possible different models”.
These two models include, on the one hand, the “ice lane, without the other equipment”, which will “implicate a majority occupation (about 75% of the area), freeing the remaining area for possible demonstrations”, and on the other “without an ice rink, but with other equipment”, which will “implicate a reduced occupation (about 25%) releasing the remaining area for eventual demonstrations”.
Leonor Figueiredo confirmed that the options are “no equipment being placed and just being camped, being camped with a small carousel and a train track, or [stay] the ice rink that occupies 75% of the square and makes camping impossible”.