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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.

There were no significant delays or interruptions in traffic at any of the targets in Lisbon.

The movement in France has transformed from a tax protest to a much wider protest against the economic reforms of the embattled French President Emmanuel Macron and his elitist government.

Emmanuel’s approval rating as beleaguered as the President, himself, diving to a record low of 18 per cent.

Inspired by the still revolutionary French, the Yellow Vest movement is empowering the working-class against their elitist governments in now seven countries.

The yellow vests are now protesting in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Britain and now Portugal.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/yellow-vest-protests-spread-to-seventh-country-in-revolutionary-europe/