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Lisbon's administrative court says the 1974 law's 00:30 limit on protests is not absolute and orders police not to remove one protester's tent on the Rossio until the final 2027 budget vote, on conditions. It did not legalise the wider camp.
President Seguro's advisory Council of State meets at 15:00 today at Belém on social cohesion, after a third police clearance of the housing camps. In Porto the tents stayed up overnight, and 13 people detained on Sunday go before judges.
Luís Neves says his post is at the prime minister's disposal and blames "a small fringe" of protesters, as the PS demands he answer in Parliament. INEM assisted 25 people in Lisbon and Porto; the six Lisbon detainees go before a judge on Monday.
President Seguro asked the Government and the Ombudsman for a detailed account of the predawn clearance of the Lisbon and Porto housing camps. The PSP counts 13 detained and 13 officers hurt; a lawyer plans a criminal complaint against minister Luís Neves.
The PSP broke up the housing protest camps in Lisbon's Rossio and Porto's Praça D. João I at about 04:30 on Sunday, the third removal since 20 October. Organisers count at least 10 detained in Lisbon and 38 injured in Porto; police figures are still awaited.
The sirens are a commemoration, not an alert. The Recordar 1755 campaign uses the anniversary to urge preparedness, with purple monuments, school bells, Sintra's drill activities on 5 November and ANEPC's advice.
Amadora has handed over the keys to 48 PRR-funded flats at Cerrado da Mira, its first let at reduced rents set so that no household spends more than 35 percent of its income on rent. Contracts run five years.
