Ioan Rus

Ioan Rus (born 21 February 1955) is a Romanian politician.

Ioan Rus
Ioan Rus (2012)
Interior Minister
In office 28 December 2000 – 11 March 2004
President	Ion Iliescu
Prime Minister	Adrian Năstase
Preceded by	Constantin Dudu Ionescu
Succeeded by	Marian Săniuță
In office 7 May 2012 – 6 August 2012
President	Traian Băsescu
Prime Minister	Victor Ponta
Preceded by	Gabriel Berca
Succeeded by	Mircea Dușa
Transport Minister
In office 24 June 2014 – 16 July 2015
President	Traian Băsescu Klaus Johannis
Prime Minister	Victor Ponta
Preceded by	Dan Șova
Succeeded by	Iulian Matache
Personal details
Born	(1955-02-21) 21 February 1955 (age 70) Urișor, Cluj County, Romania
Citizenship	Romania
Political party	PSD
Alma mater	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Occupation	politician engineer

Biography

Born in Urișor, Cluj County, he is a 1982 graduate of the Mechanics faculty of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since 1994, he was prefect of his home county in 1995, president of its county council from June to December 2000, Interior Minister from December 2000 to June 2003,^[1] and again from May to August 2012, when he resigned in the aftermath of the presidential impeachment referendum.^[2]

In June 2014, following the resignation of Dan Șova, he was named Transport Minister.^[3] In June 2015, he created a controversy when commenting about Romanians working in Western Europe. He asserted that on a hypothetical monthly salary of €1500, "their children become hoodlums at home and their wives turn into whores". Rus subsequently tendered his resignation.^[4]