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The '''Di Rupo Government''' was the federal [[cabinet of Belgium]] sworn in on 6 December 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20111206_064|title=Regering Di Rupo I legt de eed af|date=6 December 2011|accessdate=6 December 2011|work=[[De Standaard]]|language=nl}}</ref> after a record-breaking 541 days of [[2010–2011 Belgian government formation|negotiations]] following the [[Belgian federal election, 2010|June 2010 elections]]. The government included social democrats ([[Socialistische Partij Anders|sp.a]]/[[Parti Socialiste (Belgium)|PS]]), Christian democrats ([[Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams|CD&V]]/[[Centre démocrate humaniste|cdH]]) and liberals ([[Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten|Open Vld]]/[[Mouvement Réformateur|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 (voting)|plurality]] and became the largest party.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15978423|title=Belgium close to governing coalition after 18-month gap|publisher=BBC|date=1 December 2011}}</ref> 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 [[List of the first LGBT holders of political offices|first male openly gay]] [[head of government]] (and second of any gender, after [[Iceland]]'s [[Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir]]).<ref>{{cite web|last=Jackson|first=Patrick|title=Profile: Belgium's Elio Di Rupo|url=httphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15983739|publisher=BBC|accessdate=8 December 2011}}</ref> [[Elio Di Rupo]] became the first native French-speaking prime minister since 1979 and the first prime minister from [[Walloons|Wallonia]] since 1974.