New elections were held in June 2010, where the separatist and conservative[5] New Flemish Alliance won a landslide victory in Flanders, while the pro-unity Socialist Party won the elections in French-speaking Belgium. Due to the major differences between the two winning parties on a community and social-economic level, government negotiations and formation took a total of 541 days, breaking the world government formation record of 249 days, previously set by Iraq in 2010 [6] as well as the ten months record set by Lebanon in 2014.[7] On 13 September 2011 it was reported that Leterme aims to take up a new job as deputy secretary general of the OECD in 2012, although that it seemed to be unlikely at that time that he'd leave the post as the head of the caretaker government before the end of the year.[8] However, a new government was sworn in on 6 December 2011 with Elio Di Rupo as Prime Minister.[9]