Elio Di Rupo
Elio Di Rupo | |
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Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Prime Minister of Belgium | |
| In office 6 December 2011 – 11 October 2014 | |
| Monarchs | Albert II Philippe |
| Preceded by | Yves Leterme |
| Succeeded by | Charles Michel |
| Minister-President of Wallonia | |
| In office 13 September 2019 – 15 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Willy Borsus |
| Succeeded by | Adrien Dolimont |
| In office 6 October 2005 – 20 July 2007 | |
| Preceded by | André Antoine |
| Succeeded by | Rudy Demotte |
| In office 15 July 1999 – 4 April 2000 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Collignon |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe |
| Leader of the Socialist Party | |
| In office 22 November 2014 – 21 October 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Magnette |
| Succeeded by | Paul Magnette |
| In office 16 September 1999 – 6 December 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Philippe Busquin |
| Succeeded by | Thierry Giet |
| Mayor of Mons | |
| In office 8 October 2000 – 3 December 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Maurice Lafosse |
| Succeeded by | Nicolas Martin |
| Member of the European Parliament for Belgium | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | French-speaking electoral college |
| In office 25 July 1989 – 16 December 1991 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Representatives | |
| In office 18 December 1987 – 12 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 July 1951 Morlanwelz, Belgium |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Alma mater | University of Mons-Hainaut University of Leeds |
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Elio Di Rupo (French: [eljo di ʁupo]; born 18 July 1951) is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2011 to 2014, heading the Di Rupo Government, and as minister-president of Wallonia for three non-consecutive terms between 1999 and 2024. He was the first francophone to hold the prime ministership since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979, and the country's first socialist prime minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974. Di Rupo was also Belgium's first prime minister of non-Belgian descent, and the world's second openly gay person and first openly gay man to be head of government in modern times.