The President of the Republic, António José Seguro, spoke this morning with the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and with the ombudsman, Luísa Neto, about what happened in the demonstrations for housing this morning.
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01/11/2026
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Lusa
O President of the Republic, António José Seguro, already spoke this morning with the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and with the Ombudsman, Luísa Neto, about what happened this morning in the demonstrations for housing.
This information was transmitted to the Lusa agency by official source of the Presidency of the Republic, after it had been disclosed that António José Seguro had requested information from the Government and the Ombudsman's Office about what happened at the Lisbon and Porto demonstrations, where there were new police charges, and about the situation of the detainees and wounded.
According to official source of the Presidency of the Republic, the Head of State “solicited information and clarification, in all detail, about what happened this morning in the demonstrations in Lisbon and Porto and what is happening with the protesters arrested and with all the injured people”.
In the early hours of today, the PSP's intervention body advanced, almost simultaneously, at 4:30 p.m., on the protesters concentrated in the camps for housing in Lisbon and Porto to demobilize, with batonadas, removed tents and made arrests.

