Greece Recession to Enter 6th Year, Budget Shows ATHENS, Greece - Greece's draft budget submitted to Parliament on Monday shows the country is set for a sixth year of recession, with its economy predicted to contract by 3.8 percent in 2013. This year's recession is expected to see the economy shrink around 6.5 percent, the document said. Unemployment is predicted to rise to 24.7 percent in 2013 from an average 23.5 percent in 2012. The budget sees Greece's government still running at a loss despite waves of spending cuts and tax hikes over the past two years. It estimates the government will post a primary deficit, which excludes interest rates paid on existing debt, of 1.4 percent of GDP this year. That's worse than the 2012 budget's forecast for a primary surplus of 1.1 percent of GDP. MORE: Why the Euro Crisis is Nowhere Near Over Greece's finance minister was submitting the 2013 draft budget to Parliament on Monday, as the government resumed negotiations with international creditors over a two-year additional austerity package. Yannis Stournaras was meeting with debt inspection teams from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission - known as the troika - in the afternoon. A group of about 30 protesters, mainly from the small right-wing Independent Greeks party, gathered outside the finance ministry. "Bastards, the gallows are coming," they chanted. Athens needs the troika to sign off on a package of spending cuts and tax hikes for 2013-14 expected to reach (EURO) 13.5 billion ($17.5 billion) so its bailout creditors can continue disbursing billions of euros in rescue loans that are keeping Greece from a messy default. The cuts relating to next year are to be included in the draft budget that Stournaras is to submit to Parliament after his meeting with the troika - the first official record of what the new measures will be. Austerity talks involving the troika and three political parties backing Greece's four-month-old coalition government have dragged on for weeks, with disagreement over how the cuts will affect low-income Greeks suffering under a four-year recession. Government officials have conceded that pensions and salaries will be axed further. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in a weekend newspaper interview, argued the country was regaining creditability with rescue lenders by making up for delays in government reforms. MORE: The Mormon in Mitt "This will get better - that's for sure," Samaras told the Sunday To Vima newspaper. "Our partners can see that changes are now happening ... The first thing we must do is win back our damaged credibility," he said. Without credibility, you can't negotiate.