About 18,000 people have gathered in central Athens to support the
newly elected government's push for a better deal on Greece's debt.
Participants at Sunday's rally outside the parliament in the Greek
capital carried banners denouncing economic austerity and Greece's
creditors.
"We want justice here and now... for all the suffering Greece has
gone through the past five years," 58-year-old Theodora, who has been
unemployed for the last three years, told the AFP news agency.
A protester wearing a mask of German Finance Minister Wolfgang
Schaeuble and wielding a large plastic needle with "austerity" daubed on
it jousted with a fake Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras armed with a
huge pair of red scissors.
"I'm not afraid of anything, whatever bad was going to happen has
already happened," 62-year-old pensioner Vimitra told AFP, referring to
five years of severe austerity in the debt-laden country.
About 8,000 people also thronged the streets in Thessaloniki,
Greece's second biggest city in the north of the country, calling on
Brussels to loosen the noose of austerity.
Similar rallies were also seen in several Greek cities and about 40
other solidarity gatherings were staged across Europe and in Australia,
Brazil and the US.
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