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Sol Encampment
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Protesters camped at Madrid's Sol square have marched to the gates of Congress ahead of parliamentary debate, demanding the right to housing. Demonstrations are planned for 3 and 4 October in cities across Spain, with more than 1,500 people rallying in Logroño and an encampment continuing in Zaragoza. Separately, clashes broke out in Barcelona during the ninth anniversary of the 1 October referendum, with burned containers near police headquarters. Tension is high in Madrid amid fears the Congress could be surrounded.
- 2Spanish government accused of being unable to legislate▼The time has come for the Government to RECOGNIZE that it is holed up in La Moncloa without the ability to legislate, no
Criticism is being directed at Spain's government, with claims that it is trapped in the Moncloa palace without the ability to pass legislation or approve budgets, and without majority public support outside the Sol Encampment protest movement. The comments call on the government to admit its weakness and show its true position.
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Protests over the housing crisis have returned to Madrid's Puerta del Sol, the symbolic square of the 2011 15M movement. Commentary notes a nostalgic, if bleak, resemblance to the anti-austerity encampments, as tenants and activists take to the streets over soaring rents and lack of affordable housing in Spain.
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Madrid's mayor José Luis Almeida said the encampment in Plaza de Sol contains knives, cobblestones and camping stoves, describing it as a "tremendous arsenal". The claim sparked widespread mockery online, with critics ridiculing the characterization of the items seized or found at the protest site.
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Spanish actor and director Sergio Peris-Mencheta is in the news following a feature interview with elDiario.es, in which he reflects on home and identity, saying there is an age at which your house becomes the only place that knows who you are. He is also discussed for reimagining 'The Three Little Pigs' at the Sol encampment, offering that today the pig is the obstacle and the house the reward.