The demonstration, which gathered between 350 and 450 people, marched through the neighborhood, blocking traffic and making noise with whistles, pots, drums, and horns. This action targets the temporary housing project planned for the former school on Valls d’Andorra street, which is part of a larger civic hub.
Listen to the neighbors, review the project, and open a real participation process.
The demonstrators read a manifesto demanding that the Lleida city council listen to their concerns. Despite the attendance of councilors from the Partit Popular, Vox, and representatives of Aliança Catalana, the neighbors announced the creation of an independent platform.
This new entity will not include active politicians in the frontline and plans to continue the mobilizations, including a third march already scheduled for next Sunday. Residents have also started collecting signatures to add to the more than 4,000 previously gathered by the PP a year ago.
In parallel, about eighty people attended a meeting under the slogan “Neither rejection nor patches” to combat the “hate speech” they believe is being generated around the project and prevent the stigmatization of vulnerable groups. Spokespersons for this initiative advocated for a “critical yes” to the facility.
