Housing protesters camp overnight in Lisbon and Porto

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Thousands of housing rights protesters remained camped overnight in Lisbon's Rossio square and Porto's Praça D. João I following Saturday's demonstrations against rising living costs. Communist Party leader Paulo Raimundo said people protest due to "brutal difficulty" in their lives, citing housing problems and low wages. He stressed most demonstrators reject violence, noting they already face "violence of precariousness." Raimundo criticized the government's new rental law as serving real estate funds, not tenants, and called for robust public housing investment. He noted 700,000 empty homes could be rehabilitated and criticized banks' daily profits of 14 million euros.


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