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. Questia. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  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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