Jan Ruml
| Jan Ruml | |
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| Interior Minister | |
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In office 2 July 1992 – 7 November 1997 | |
| Prime Minister | Václav Klaus |
| Preceded by | Tomáš Sokol |
| Succeeded by | Jindrich Vodicka |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 March 1953[1] Prague, Czechoslovakia[1] |
Jan Ruml (born 5 March 1953 in Prague[1]) is a Czech politician who was Interior Minister from 1992 to 1997.
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]
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References
- 1 2 3 Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1999 (4th ed.). Routledge. 1 October 1998. p. 992. ISBN 1857430581.
- ↑ Barrett, Amy (23 August 1991). "Czechs and Slovaks Cheer Soviet Democracy, Reaffirm Their Own". The Christian Science Monitor. Questia. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
- ↑ Shepherd, Robin H E (2000). Czechoslovakia: The Velvet Revolution and Beyond. Houndmills: Macmillan. p. 107.