Dimitra Liani

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Dimitra Liani (Greek: Δήμητρα Λιάνη) is a Greek celebrity,born in Florina,Makedonia. She was married with the former Prime Minister of Greece Andreas Papandreou in 1989.

The couple married after a widely reported, two-year extramarital affair that had been in part responsible for the PASOK's government fall earlier that year.^{[citation needed]} She publicly appeared at his side while he was being treated in London after open-heart surgery in the autumn of 1988 although he hadn't yet divorced his wife, Margaret. She also escorted Mr. Papandreou at a European Community summit in December 1988 during Greece's EC presidency.

Conservative daily newspapers were quick to blast Mrs. Papandreou. "Dimitra rules Greece" and "We don't need another Evita Peron" were two of the headlines.^{[citation needed]} The rightist daily Eleftheros Typos predicted that Mrs. Papandreou would "develop into the government's No. 1 problem."^{[citation needed]}