Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian politician born in 1951 who has held significant roles in Belgium's government. He matters because he has been influential in Belgian politics and served as Prime Minister, shaping policy decisions for the country.
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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.
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