The
Di Rupo Government was the federal
cabinet of Belgium sworn in on 6 December 2011, after a record-breaking 541 days of
negotiations following the
June 2010 elections. The government includes social democrats (
sp.a/
PS), Christian democrats (
CD&V/
cdH) and liberals (
Open Vld/
MR), respectively of the Dutch and French language groups. The government notably excluded the
New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), the Flemish nationalist party which achieved a
plurality and became the largest party. Its absence, together with the unwillingness of Open Vld to enter into an eight-party coalition that included the green parties, caused the government coalition to lack a majority in the Dutch language group. It was the first time that the Belgian prime minister had been openly gay, as Di Rupo became the world's
first male openly gay head of government (and second of any gender, after
Iceland's
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir).
Elio Di Rupo became the first native French-speaking prime minister since 1979 and the first prime minister from
Wallonia since 1974.