Jan Ruml

Jan Ruml (born 5 March 1953 in Prague[1]) is a Czech politician who was interior minister from 1992 to 1997.

Jan Ruml
Interior Minister
In office
2 July 1992 – 7 November 1997
Prime MinisterVáclav Klaus
Preceded byTomáš Sokol
Succeeded byJindřich Vodička
Personal details
Born (1953-03-05) 5 March 1953[1]
Prague, Czechoslovakia[1]
Political partyOF (1989–1991)
ODS (1991–1998)
US–DEU (1998–2004)
SZ (2010–2014)

Government career

Before becoming Interior Minister, Jan Ruml served as deputy Interior Minister in 1991.[2]

Jan Ruml announced his resignation as Interior Minister on 21 October 1997.[3] He then challenged Václav Klaus for the leadership of the Civic Democratic Party over a party funding scandal.[3][4] However Klaus won with 72% of the vote at a party conference on the 14 December 1997.[3]

Freedom Union

Jan Ruml became leader of a breakaway party called Freedom Union, which was founded on the 17 January 1998.[3] He led the party into the 1998 election, where the party won 8.6% of the vote and 19 seats and went into opposition.[3]

Jan Ruml announced his resignation as leader of the Freedom Union on the 1 December 1999.[3]

References
  1. Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1999 (4th ed.). Routledge. 1 October 1998. p. 992. ISBN 1857430581.
  2. Barrett, Amy (23 August 1991). "Czechs and Slovaks Cheer Soviet Democracy, Reaffirm Their Own". The Christian Science Monitor.
  3. Jeffries, Ian (2002). Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition. London: Routledge. pp. 163–170.
  4. Shepherd, Robin H E (2000). Czechoslovakia: The Velvet Revolution and Beyond. Houndmills: Macmillan. p. 107.
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