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Thousands take part in anti-austerity protest in Portugal

Lisbon, May 2 : Thousands of people took to the streets on Friday to protest against the austarity drive of the Portugal government, months before the 2015 general elections.

People waved banners, demanded the government’s step down, and flower vendors sold carnations symbolising the flowers protesters placed in the military’s guns during the carnation revolution in 1974, overthrowing a…