Joana Cotar

Joana Cotar
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 October 2017
Personal details
Born	(1973-04-06) 6 April 1973 (age 51)
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

Cotar was born 1973 in Pitești, Romania and studied German studies and political science at University of Mannheim.[1]

Cotar entered the newly founded AfD in 2013 and became a member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election.[2]

Cotar is a member of the federal executive board of the AfD. 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 is publicly criticizing chairmen 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]

References

1. "Deutscher Bundestag - Joana Cotar". Deutscher Bundestag.
2. "Bundestag: Wer sind die sechs hessischen AfD-Abgeordneten?". fnp.de. 5 December 2017. Archived from the original on 5 December 2017.
3. tagesschau.de. "AfD bei Landtagswahlen: Chrupallas verheerende Bilanz". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 17 May 2022.
4. "Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl". www.zeit.de. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
5. 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.