Jiří Rusnok

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Jiří Rusnok (2013)

Jiří Rusnok (born October 16, 1960 in Ostrava ) is a Czech politician and economist. From April 2001 he was finance minister in the social democratic government of Miloš Zeman , in the subsequent social democratic government of Vladimír Špidla he was minister for industry and trade until March 2003. Rusnok was Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from June 25, 2013 to January 29, 2014.

biography

Rusnok graduated from Prague University of Economics in 1984 with a degree in economics. He then worked as a consultant in the State Planning Commission and later headed a department in the Ministry of Strategic Planning. From 1992 to 1998 he worked for a Czech trade union confederation (ČMKOS). Before 1989, Rusnok was also a candidate for membership in KSČ .

In January 1998 Rusnok joined the social democratic ČSSD and shortly afterwards became deputy of Vladimír Špidla, who at that time held the office of Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the government of Miloš Zeman . On April 13, 2001, at the suggestion of Prime Minister Zeman, he was appointed Czech Minister of Finance and moved to the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the government formed after the elections of Vladimír Špidla. In the parliamentary elections in 2002 he was elected to the House of Representatives for the ČSSD . However, Rusnok soon got into a dispute with the incumbent party leadership under Vladimír Špidla when he supported the candidate of the opposition ODS , Václav Klaus , and not the candidate of his own party, Jan Sokol in the presidential election on February 28, 2003 . Klaus was then surprisingly elected president . At the request of Prime Minister Špidla, the President dismissed Rusnok from the ministerial office shortly afterwards on March 13th. At the following party congress on March 29, 2003, Rusnok stood against the incumbent party leader Vladimír Špidla as a representative of the "pragmatic wing", which advocated close cooperation with the ODS. However, Rusnok lost to Špidla with 147 to 299 votes. Shortly afterwards, Rusnok also gave up his mandate. Rusnok then left politics and switched to the private sector. From 2003 he worked initially as a consultant to the supervisory board of ING in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and from 2006 as chairman of the board of the ING pension fund.

In 2010 Rusnok resigned from the ČSSD and ran for the SPOZ party founded by Miloš Zeman in the local elections in the Vinoř district of Prague . In the 2013 presidential election , Rusnok also publicly supported the candidacy of Zeman, who was elected as the new president.

Rusnok was appointed the new Czech Prime Minister by President Miloš Zeman on June 25, 2013 after the resignation of Petr Nečas . Zeman thus defied the declared will of the previous coalition of ODS , TOP 09 and LIDEM , which had relied on a continuation of this coalition under Miroslava Němcová as the new Prime Minister. For this purpose, they had also submitted the signatures of the 101 MPs of the coalition (out of a total of 200 MPs). Instead, however, Rusnok was commissioned by Zeman to form a government of experts, which was not based on the political majority in parliament and, according to the will of the president , should lead the country to early elections . The cabinet put together by Rusnok was sworn in on July 10, 2013 and had to face the House of Representatives vote of confidence within 30 days . As previously expected, the government lost the vote of confidence on August 7, 2013 with 93 to 100 votes. But since there was also no majority for another government - among other things, the 101 MPs of the previous bourgeois coalition were not united against the government - the parties agreed on an early dissolution of the House of Representatives and early elections. On August 13, Rusnok submitted his resignation as prime minister to President Zeman in accordance with the constitution, but was, as expected, entrusted "provisionally" with the further administration of the office until a successor was appointed. On August 20, the House of Representatives dissolved itself, as agreed, and paved the way for early elections .

After the early parliamentary elections , after some hesitation, President Zeman asked Bohuslav Sobotka to form a new government. Rusnok and his cabinet remained in office until the new government was sworn in on January 29, 2014.

After the end of his term as Prime Minister, President Zeman Rusnok appointed a member of the Council of the Czech National Bank with effect from March 1, 2014 . With effect from May 25, 2016, Zeman appointed him Governor of the National Bank.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vládu by mohl posílit Rusnok z ČSSD online
  2. ↑ www.rozhlas.cz/...6825 ( Memento of the original of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rozhlas.cz
  3. ↑ Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 14. - 15.6.2002 online
  4. ↑ www.novinky.cz/...spidla.html
  5. ↑ Rusnok opustil ČSSD. Pracuje pro Miloše Zemana online
  6. ↑ Aktuell.centrum.cz/...676358
  7. ↑ www.volby.cz/...724
  8. ↑ www.spoz.cz / ...
  9. ↑ zpravy.idnes.cz / ...
  10. ↑ vladu sestaví Rusnok, rozhodl Zeman. Postavil se proti stranám online . iDNES.cz, June 25, 2010
  11. ↑ Premiér Rusnok Predal na Hradě Zemanovi demisi vlády online iDNES.cz, August, 13, 2013.
  12. ^ "Czech House of Representatives clears the way for new elections" , Radio Prague , August 20, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Novým guvernérem ČNB bude Rusnok, potvrdil Zeman" (Rusnok becomes the new governor of the National Bank, Zeman confirmed), Novinky.cz, May 17, 2016 (Czech).
personal data
SURNAME Rusnok, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician and economist; Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrava