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"Tsovola give it [to them] all. (Τσοβόλα δώσ'τα όλα.)"

— Andreas Papandreou

January 1, 1970

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As the scandals and elections of 1989 were closing in, Papandreou's populism reached new heights by giving a public command in front of crowd to Minister of Finise Dimitris Tsovolas to empty the state coffers. The crowd chanted this back. Later on, Papandreou said he was merely joking.

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As the scandals and elections of 1989 were closing in, Papandreou's populism reached new heights by giving a public command in front of crowd to Minister of Finise Dimitris Tsovolas to empty the state coffers. The crowd chanted this back. Later on, Papandreou said he was merely joking.