“Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Lisbon and other Portuguese cities Saturday to protest against the government’s austerity measures. The rallies were organised by a non-political movement which claimed 500,000 marched in the country’s capital and another 400,000 in the main northern city of Porto. But the mood of the crowd was clearly political, calling for new elections with banners declaring ‘Portugal to the polls!’ and ‘If you fall asleep in a democracy, you wake up in a dictatorship’. Another banner showed a picture of centre-right Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho with the caption: ‘Today I am in the street, tomorrow it will be you.'”
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