Jan Ruml

Jan Ruml
Minister of the Interior
In office
2 July 1992 – 7 November 1997
Prime MinisterVáclav Klaus
Preceded byTomáš Sokol
Succeeded byJindřich Vodička
Senator from Prague 6
In office
21 November 1998 – 21 November 2004
Preceded byJan Koukal
Succeeded byKarel Schwarzenberg
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 June 1996 – 19 June 1998
Member of the Federal Assembly
In office
6 June 1992 – 31 December 1992
Leader of the US–DEU
In office
22 February 1998 – 1 December 1999
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byKarel Kühnl
Personal details
Born (1953-03-05) 5 March 1953 (age 71)[1]
Prague, Czechoslovakia[1]
Political partyOF (1989–1991)
ODS (1991–1998)
US–DEU (1998–2004)
SZ (2010–2014)
Alma materUniversity of West Bohemia

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f 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. Archived from the original on 2016-03-27. Retrieved 2017-09-01. [ISBN missing]
  4. ^ Shepherd, Robin H E (2000). Czechoslovakia: The Velvet Revolution and Beyond. Houndmills: Macmillan. p. 107. Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2017-09-01.[ISBN missing]