Ioan Rus (born February 21, 1955) is a

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n politician.

Biography

Born in Urișor,

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, he is a 1982 graduate of the Mechanics faculty of the

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. A member of the

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(PSD) since 1994, he was

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of his home county in 1995, president of its county council from June to December 2000,

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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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rus, Ioan 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