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Elio Di Rupo is a flamboyant left-winger, and is widely considered to have played a major part in the resurgence of the PS, now the joint largest party in the Belgian parliament. In 1996 , he was wrongly accused of having had sex with minors by a young gay, Olivier Trusgnach. The allegations nearly put an end to his political career, but a judicial investigation cleared his name. Although Di Rupo is openly gay, no proof was ever found of sexual misconduct with minors. He is a deputy (MP) for the Hainaut division of Wallonia . He once described François Mitterrand as being "a character from a novel". His political career started in 1982 . He became Mayor of Mons , the major city of Hainaut in 2000 . In October 2005 , he became Minister-President Of Wallonia after Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe resigned amid a corruption scandal. |