Joana Cotar

Joana Cotar (born 6 April 1973) is a German politician and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the federal legislative body. Until November 2022, she was a member for the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Joana Cotar
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1973-04-06) 6 April 1973
NationalityGerman
Political partyAfD

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. Cotar cites "the close proximity of leading AfD officials to the President of the Russian Federation" as reason for her resignation.[4]

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.


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