Di Rupo Government | |
|---|---|
 93rd Cabinet of Belgium (since 1830) | |
 | |
| Date formed | 6 December 2011 |
| Date dissolved | 11 October 2014 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Albert II of Belgium Philippe of Belgium |
| Head of government | Elio Di Rupo |
| Deputy head of government | See list
|
| Member party | SP.A PS CD&V cdH Open Vld MR |
| Status in legislature | Coalition |
| History | |
| Election | 2010 |
| Incoming formation | 2010–11 Belgian government formation |
| Outgoing formation | 2014 Belgian government formation |
| Predecessor | Leterme II |
| Successor | Michel |
The Di Rupo Government was the federal cabinet of Belgium sworn in on 6 December 2011,[1] after a record-breaking 541 days of negotiations following the June 2010 elections. The government included 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.[2] 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).[3] Elio Di Rupo also became the first native French-speaking prime minister since 1979 and the first prime minister from Wallonia since 1974 and first socialist prime minister since 1974.
The negotiations aimed to put an end to the 2007–2011 Belgian political crisis and included a sixth state reform, including the partition of the electoral and judicial arrondissement of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde and the transfer of new powers from the federal level to the regions. Because a state reform requires a two-thirds majority, the green parties (Groen/Ecolo) participated in these negotiations but were not part of the government coalition.
- ^ "Regering Di Rupo I legt de eed af". De Standaard (in Dutch). 6 December 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
- ^ "Belgium close to governing coalition after 18-month gap". BBC. 1 December 2011.
- ^ Jackson, Patrick. "Profile: Belgium's Elio Di Rupo". BBC. Retrieved 8 December 2011.