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TIL in June 1984 the prime minister of New Zealand, Robert Muldoon, drunkenly announced on national television that a snap election was to be held in a month’s time. With 93.7% of voters turning out for the election, he lost. The occasion is sometimes remembered as the ‘Schnapps election’.

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