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This transcription was automatically generated by Artificial Intelligence and may contain errors or inaccuracies. It is three hours. The news with Hugo Fortunato de Oliveira. Very good evening. The Public Security Police has no intention, for now, to intervene in the encampment for the right to housing in Rossio, Lisbon. The information is being advanced by CNN Portugal. Hundreds of demonstrators remain on site with tents installed in the very center of the capital. Journalist Miguel Pina-Andrade joins this live edition, who is following this protest. Miguel, very good evening. What is the situation at this time? Good evening, Hugo. At this moment, the large police contingent that this afternoon and night felt here in Praça do Rossio has already almost completely disappeared. No longer are any of those vans from the Special Police Unit visible. There are only two PSP vans from the Rapid Intervention Team and one car from the Traffic Police making rounds here in Rossio. The demonstrators, indeed, as you said, are staying here in Praça do Rossio. There are many dozens of tents. Some demonstrators have already rested and gathered in their tents, others are staying here in a mood of good spirits and celebration, singing. Sometimes some chants that were heard throughout the night and the whole afternoon are being sung. A little while ago, one of the organizers reported that the objective is to remain here for a few days. However, he also reserved that if the police so understood that the demonstrators were willing to leave. However, the indication we have is that they will continue here in Praça do Rossio. This at a time when the biggest moment of tension of the night, so to speak, has already passed. It was when some municipal police officers removed the iron shutters that the demonstrators used to make a perimeter around the tents. And also a little later, the protest organizers told the demonstrators to join in affinity groups. This for some while they were sleeping, others to watch the surroundings of Praça do Rossio to protect themselves, precisely against a possible police raid. But, as you said, at this moment the atmosphere is some tranquility. The demonstrators are singing, most of the police have already demobilized, and the demonstrators continue here in the middle of Praça do Rossio, with this apparatus of many tents, which marked today and also the last few days in the city of Porto. Everything is calm at this time in Lisbon, in Praça do Rossio, report by Miguel Pina-Andrade, the journalist from the Observador, who has been following this protest in Lisbon since this Saturday afternoon. In Porto, the situation remains open. The PSP maintains conversations with the organization of the Acampada do Porto movement and asked that the protest transform into a vigil, without tents and without noise. Without further delay, we go to Laura Figueiredo, who is following this protest precisely. Laura, the police are awaiting a response from the group's leaders. Good evening, Hugo. We don't know well, since the police left here from Praça Dom João I about an hour ago, and not even the lawyer representing the movement here knows if the police will or not return. Therefore, I am living in a moment of some uncertainty. Some cars have already passed, two or three PSP cars, and one intervention van, but they just passed by. We will also find out here with one of the demonstrators what is expected for the next few hours. I have Luís Sousa with me, one of the demonstrators. Good evening, what is expected now for the next few hours? Will they continue here in this more silent vigil? Good evening. I am with a group of friends at this moment. We came here to protest for the right to housing. What we are waiting for is to stay here all night. We will always be alert, whatever happens. They have already tried, in a way, to incriminate us with a fire in a garbage bin, which had nothing to do with us, but we resisted, we are here peacefully, and what we expect is to maintain our position no matter the cost. Yes, the police made it clear from the beginning that it had nothing to do with the protest. But Luís is here with a helmet; he already explained to me that it is a preventive measure in case the police come. Who gave him the helmet, does he also have some protection on his arms? When I decided to come to the front line of the human chain we are mobilizing here, in case of any kind of confrontation, they equip me with a helmet and protection for my arms, exactly as a safety measure to avoid the disaster that happened on Wednesday night to Thursday. But do you think the police will return here tonight? With all the support we have today, I doubt there will be any kind of confrontation, but in any case, we are prepared for whatever happens and we cannot lower our guard, because if we lower our guard, that is when they will try to take our tents, and that is what we cannot let happen. Thank you very much. Here is the testimony of a demonstrator, Luís Sousa. These hundreds of demonstrators remain here with the tents that were not dismantled, even after the police request for the tents to be removed. In fact, they were not, the people also did not demobilize and for now they remain here in silence, especially in small groups for socializing, but without making noise, since the police made it very clear that there could be no noise here in the square and, in fact, these moments of uncertainty are being lived, waiting to see if the police will or not return here to Praça Dom João I. Laura Figueiredo, the journalist from the Observador, has been following this protest in Praça Dom João, Porto. Uncertainty at this time, with the demonstrators preparing for the worst, with a possible new police raid. They fear that a new police raid, like that of Thursday morning, will occur. The President of the Porto City Council refuses to go to the demonstration in Praça Dom João I. However, he reveals that he has invited the demonstrators to a meeting. Among the most heard slogans in the protest has been the resignation of Pedro Duarte. The demonstrators challenged the mayor to face and appear in the protest. Pedro Duarte rejects, but guarantees to be available for dialogue. We have already invited the demonstrators to, if they wanted to go to the city hall to meet, we were open to that. We already did it two days ago. The guarantee, the short statement of the President of the Porto City Council, Pedro Duarte, to TSF, on the sidelines of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Association of Residents of the Campo Alegre area. The Minister of Housing guarantees that the government sees the protests with enormous concern and recognizes that if the population protests, it protests rightly. Miguel Pinto Luz says that the Executive is aware of the housing problems. However, he underlines that it is not because of this government that there are delays in implementing the necessary measures. I see with enormous concern. I think that when the population protests, it protests rightly, because it feels, because it hurts, because there is pain. Today, the housing problem is a problem that afflicts many people. The government is absolutely aware of this. And therefore, this government can be accused of many things, but it cannot be accused of that the measures to facilitate the lives of landlords, the reduction of the tax burden, are what impacted the rent value. No, because they are not in force. The view of Miguel Pinto Luz, the interview on the program Conversa Capital, from Antena 1 of the Jornal de Negócios, the minister also defended the mayor of Porto, Pedro Duarte. Doctor Pedro Duarte, well, he defended the interests of the city of Porto. He is a sensible man, a humanist, a social democrat of those I represent, and he managed with humanity, maintaining dialogue, I also followed the situation, maintaining dialogue with the demonstrators, and then, the question of internal administration. I will not interfere, I am not a specialist, and therefore, I do not know how the intervention was or was not. I think there must be authority, there must be respect for everyone, there must be the right to protest, but with respect for everyone. That is all I say. And I think that the City Council President, Pedro Duarte, is doing an excellent job in front of the Porto City Council. Miguel Pinto Luz, the interview on the program Conversa Capital from Antena 1 of the Jornal de Negócios, praise from the Minister of Housing to the President of the Porto City Council, Pedro Duarte, is also from the PSD and he has joined the government of Luís Montenegro. The PCP accuses the government not only of not solving the housing problem but also of aggravating it. The communist leader criticizes the new rental law presented by the Executive. Paulo Raimundo considers that it will only aggravate the problem in the housing market and accuses the prime minister of being selfish. We think that the government, with the options it is taking, not only is not solving, but the options with Chega and the Liberal Initiative, not only is not solving, but is accentuating a problem. And it is not worth it, Mr. Prime Minister, to talk about selfish people, because selfish is the prime minister when he joins the selfish ones who want all the houses for them, want all the incomes for them, want all the wealth concentrated for them. Accusation of Paulo Raimundo, the communist leader, interview tonight on RTP Notícias. Protests also mark the current international news. Thousands of people protested this Saturday in France, Italy, Belgium, and Albania, against the cost of living and government policies. In France, the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Núñez, counts 550,000 demonstrators. Only in Paris were 110,000, numbers that are far below those presented by the protest organizers, which point to 800,000 participants. There were confrontations, fires, and looting that led to more than a thousand detentions. Paris, Lyon, and Marseille were the main focal points of tension. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, through a post on the social network X, promises to punish those responsible for the violence. The French Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, accuses far-right groups of trying to impose an agenda through violence, also through a post on the social network X. In Italy, the protests in Milan and Bologna also ended in confrontations with the police using tear gas and water cannons. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemns the violence but recognizes the right to protest. In Belgium, hundreds of young people protested against the increase in education costs. Also in Albania, thousands took to the streets to demand the resignation of the prime minister. News ends in this edition at 3 a.m. The essential is updated at 3:30 a.m. See you later.