Talk:Elio Di Rupo

Spoken Languages
The article says that he is fluent in Dutch, but this very disputable. http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=H42RPKF7 http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20120523_231 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.116.54.63 (talk) 16:03, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Sexuality
"Although Di Rupo is openly gay, no proof was ever found of sexual misconduct with minors." This make it sound like gay people are child molesters. If somebody has a better way of phrasing this, plese change it. I do not have much inspiration today. [Hicham]

"He is the first openly gay man to lead a European Union country after Norway's Per-Kristian Foss briefly served as prime minister of his country in 2002.[10]" Norway is not in the European Union. The source article says the first gay male leader full stop, so I will change it accordingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.201.197 (talk) 11:12, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Changing internal links
This change has been reverted already three times by two different persons, for very good reasons: I just can't figure out what good reason there might exist for these changes, but I am certainly interested in discussing about it. But Countess Richilde was of the Germanic race will not be enough. Bradipus 15:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * the proposed changed links are links to redirections, and it is not logical to do this except for a good reason;
 * the links are to names of geographical points in french speaking Wallonia.

Poor family
Est-ce que vos origines italiennes ont déterminé ce que vous êtes aujourd’hui?

Elio Di Rupo. — ''Pas vraiment. J’avais à peine un an quand mon père est mort. Cela a créé une sorte de rupture par rapport à l’Italie. Ma mère est restée veuve avec sept enfants. Pour des raisons financières, elle a dû accepter que trois d’entre nous soient placés dans un orphelinat. Celui-ci se situait à un gros kilomètre de là où nous habitions. A Morlanwelz. On s’y rendait souvent. Cette proximité a influencé notre éducation. L’assistance publique a fait que les enfants Di Rupo ont baigné dans une culture belge. A la différence d’autres Italiens de Belgique qui ont vécu dans des environnements plus dos.''

Source

http://michelbouffioux.skynetblogs.be/post/4537987/elio-di-rupo-210396 --Mario scolas 12:51, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Pedophilia reference
Quoth the article:

''When the Dutroux-affair broke loose in 1996, he was shortly charged of pedophilia by Olivier Trusgnach[further explanation needed]. This accusation could have meant the end of his political career. Di Rupo denied the accusations and a close investigation showed that he was completely innocent. From that moment he has never hidden his homosexuality.''

There's a tag on this, but I wanted to make explicit on the talk page why this paragraph needs explanation. Was Di Rupo not public about his sexuality before Trusgnach attempted to smear him as a pedophile? Why are these two things related? --Jfruh (talk) 21:43, 10 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Laurent Louis publicly accused him of the same thing, and was censured for doing so. FiredanceThroughTheNight (talk) 14:54, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

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http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/video-belgique-le-premier-ministre-traite-de-pedophile-par-un-depute-30-03-2014-1807145_24.php

Looks like it is by far, not the end of the accusations.86.149.136.96 (talk) 16:57, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Descent
"He is also the first Belgian Prime Minister of non-Walloon or Flemish descent as well as the only openly gay leader of a European Union country." This is confusing. Should "non-Walloon or Flemish descent" not be changed to "non-Walloon or non-Flemish descent". The former suggests that he is of Flemish descent. You can also simplify it by saying: "He is the country's first Prime Minister of non-Belgian descent..."Keffertje08 (talk) 18:25, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Language
"He is fluent in four languages." He really isn't. —78.22.96.158 (talk) 18:30, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

University
Does anybody know what "lecture member of staff" really means. When searching in google, this person looks to be the only "lecture member of staff" in the whole world! 94.108.109.54 (talk) 13:25, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Here is looks to have had his PhD in Leeds http://archives.sudpresse.be/politique-dans-l%26%238217-antre-des-negociations-di_t-20111129-H3HT6M.html

and here he would have been, according to an official CV professor in Leeds http://web.archive.org/web/20030503120013/http://www.socialistinternational.org/9SocAffairs/2-V48/fPeople.html 94.108.109.54 (talk) 14:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

"less than 50% of the popular vote"
I eliminated a sentence added by an anon editor that said Di Rupo was the first premier to receive less than 50% of the popular vote. Not sure what exactly is meant like this in the context of Belgian politics. First of all, voters don't vote directly for PM, but rather for individual parties. It's true that Di Rupo's party didn't get 50% of the popular vote, but due to Belgian's fractured politics no party has gotten a popular majority for many years. A quick look at the voting totals on the Belgian federal election, 2010 page show that the six parties in the Di Rupo government got about 55% of the popular vote. If something else was meant by this sentence, please explain in more detail before re-adding. --Jfruh (talk) 17:04, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Request for Comments
There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.

The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person.

Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 04:31, 23 April 2015 (UTC)