Ioan Rus (born February 21, 1955) is a
Romania
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n politician.
Biography
Born in
Urișor,
Cluj County
Cluj County (; german: Kreis Klausenburg, hu, Kolozs megye) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Transylvania. Its seat ( ro, Oraș reședință de județ) is Cluj-Napoca (german: Klausenburg).
Name
In Hungarian, it is known as ''Kolozs megye ...
, he is a 1982 graduate of the Mechanics faculty of the
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
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. A member of the
Social Democratic Party
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Active parties
Fo ...
(PSD) since 1994, he was
prefect
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of his home county in 1995, president of its county council from June to December 2000,
Interior Minister from December 2000 to June 2003, and again from May to August 2012, when he resigned in the aftermath of the
presidential impeachment referendum.
In June 2014, following the resignation of
Dan Șova, he was named
Transport Minister. In June 2015, he created a controversy when commenting about Romanians working in Western Europe. He asserted that on a hypothetical monthly salary of
€
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1500, "their children become hoodlums at home and their wives turn into whores". Rus subsequently tendered his resignation.
["Ioan Rus şi-a dat demisia din funcţia de ministru al Transporturilor"]
Mediafax, June 11, 2015
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Living people
1955 births
People from Cluj County
Romanian engineers
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca alumni
Social Democratic Party (Romania) politicians
Councillors in Romania
Prefects of Romania
Romanian Ministers of Interior
Romanian Ministers of Transport