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President pays tribute to father of 19

President pays tribute to father of 19

President Prokopis Pavlopoulos paid tribute on Tuesday to Stavros Zouganelis, the father of 19 children who died on Tuesday, as a globally emblematic figure.

The 89-year-old man had held the Guinness Book of Records for the number of children he fathered since 1984 with the same woman, Vasiliki Zouganeli, who died in 2014.

The couple had 10 daughters and nine sons and 50 grandchildren.

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