Joana Cotar

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Joana Cotar
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1973-04-06) 6 April 1973 (age 51)
Pitești, Romania
NationalityGerman
Political partyIndependent [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] 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 cited "the close proximity of leading AfD officials to the President of the Russian Federation" as reason for her resignation. [5]

Cotar decided against running for parliament in the 2025 election. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "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. ↑ "AfD-Austritt". 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.
  6. ↑ Dec. 2024, https://x.com/joanacotar/status/1869407236293808288


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