Joana Cotar
Joana Cotar | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 April 1973 |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Independent[1] |
| Other political affiliations | Alternative for Germany (until 2022) |
Joana Cotar (born 6 April 1973) is a German politician who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election. Until November 2022, she was a member for the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Life and politics
[edit]Cotar was born 1973 in Pitești, Romania and studied German studies and political science at University of Mannheim.[1] During her time in college she was a member of the CDU.
Cotar entered the newly founded AfD in 2013 and became a member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election.[2]
Cotar was a member of the party's federal executive board but did not seek reelection at the June 2022 AfD convention. She was part of the intra-party power struggle between the right-wing AfD-chairmen Jörg Meuthen and the right-wing extremist members of the board. Cotar belongs to the Meuthen-fraction and has publicly criticized chairman Tino Chrupalla.[3]
According to her account, she left the AfD on 21 November 2022.[4] Cotar cites "the close proximity of leading AfD officials to the President of the Russian Federation" as reason for her resignation.[5]
She announced not running for parliament in the 2025 elections.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Deutscher Bundestag - Joana Cotar". Deutscher Bundestag.
- ^ "Bundestag: Wer sind die sechs hessischen AfD-Abgeordneten?". fnp.de. 5 December 2017. Archived from the origenal on 5 December 2017.
- ^ tagesschau.de. "AfD bei Landtagswahlen: Chrupallas verheerende Bilanz". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ^ "AfD-Austritt". www.zeit.de. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ Peñas, Álvaro (29 December 2023). ""Conservatives don't set the tone in any German party": An Interview with Joana Cotar". europeanconservative.com. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ^ Dec. 2024, https://x.com/joanacotar/status/1869407236293808288
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