Yellow vest protests spread to seventh country in ‘revolutionary Europe’
Yellow Vests have now spread to Portugal! A few hundred “yellow vest” protesters took to the streets throughout Portugal on Friday in an attempt to stop traffic, inspired by the French revolutionary “gilets jaunes”.
There were roughly 100 protesters crossing with police at a central square in Lisbon with other access roads blocked in the northern city of Braga earlier.
One protester, Joao Viana, 50, tells why she is protesting:
“The reason why I joined this protest today is because this really is the voice of the people.
“The movement is not aligned to any political party and we simply want to tell the government that we are tired of corruption, we are tired of taxes, we are tired of paying to sustain the political class.”
Portugal does not have a history of protesting like the French, who inspired the Yellow Vests movement, however the socialist government did put 20,000 police on alert.
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