Dimitra Liani is the former first lady of Greece (1993-1996). She married the late Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in 1989. Andreas Georgiou Papandreou, Ανδρέας Γ. Παπανδρέου (5 February 1919 - 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist and politician. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The couple married after a widely reported, two-year extramarital affair that had been in part responsible for the Socialist government's fall earlier that year. 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 American wife, Margaret. She also escorted Mr. Papandreou at a European Community summit in December 1988 during Greece's EC presidency. An affair is a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an illicit sexual, romantic and/or passionate attachment, usually for a limited duration. ... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ...

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. The rightist daily Eleftheros Typos predicted that Mrs. Papandreou would "develop into the government's No. 1 problem." April 1st 2006 issue of Eleftheros Typos Eleftheros Typos (Greek: Ελεύθερος Τύπος, in English, Free Press) is a daily newspaper published in Athens, by the Lilian Voudouri press foundation. ...