ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Portuguese protesters against new tax hikes that have shattered the political consensus behind austerity imposed by an EU/IMF bailout moved to the country's parliament building where they clashed with police on Saturday.<br/> <br />Earlier more than 100,000 protesters marched in Lisbon. While most dispersed peacefully between three and four thousand stayed outside the parliament building into the evening.<br/> <br />Organized via the Internet, the rallies brought together Portuguese from all walks of life, chanting: "Out of here! IMF is hunger and misery!" and calling on the center-right government to resign.<br/> <br />Tax hikes and spending cuts imposed since last year's bailout have contributed to record unemployment above 15 percent and pushed the economy into its worst recession since the 1970s.<br/> <br />On Thursday, the main opposition Socialists threatened to end cross-party backing for the 78-billion-euro bailout by voting against the 2013 draft budget unless the government drops its planned increase in the social security levy for all workers to 18 percent from 11 percent.
