The meeting took place at the side door of the Palácio de Cristal, where some protesters of the “Together for Portugal” movement, which today organized a protest march bringing together different sectors, have concentrated to try to reach talks with socialist leaders.
When asked “why can’t we get in if we’re in a democracy?” one of the people who questioned her, Ana Catarina Mendes, replied: “You have the right to demonstrate thanks to democracy”.
The minister entered the gardens of the Palácio de Cristal and walked the approximately 200 meters, always “under” the questions of the demonstrators and next to the cameras and microphones of the journalists, but gave no further explanation other than that “people can and have the right to manifest”.
To Lusa, after Ana Catarina entered, one of the people who questioned her, teacher Aurora Leal, said that “teachers are not heard despite being on the street every day”.
“We are in a democratic country. We fall asleep in a democracy and we will wake up in a dictatorship,” said the teacher.
Thousands of people from different sectors, from education to local housing, including the judiciary, demonstrated in Porto today to mark the celebration and 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Socialist Party.
Several interventions from socialist leaders are expected at the Pavilhão Rosa Mota, including the secretary general of the PS and Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa.
Source: DN
