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AfD faction leaders call on Cotar to return their mandate

After the announced withdrawal from the party and parliamentary group of the AfD member of the Bundestag Joana Cotar, the parliamentary group leadership is now reacting.

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AfD faction leaders call on Cotar to return their mandate

After the announced withdrawal from the party and parliamentary group of the AfD member of the Bundestag Joana Cotar, the parliamentary group leadership is now reacting. “Joana Cotar has long distanced herself personally and in terms of content from the party and her work in the parliamentary group. We regret that and consider the step of leaving the party and parliamentary group to be consistent," said the AfD parliamentary group leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla together with WELT. “Your mandate should give you back. That is part of the honesty that she herself has always demanded.”

It had previously become known that MP Cotar was leaving the AfD. The Hessian MP announced on Monday on her Facebook page that she was leaving the party and parliamentary group. On her website, Cotar, who counted herself among the moderate tendencies of the party and had meanwhile been a member of the federal executive committee, wrote: "In the fight against opponents within the party, constant bullying is the order of the day - fueled by the top of the party and its networks." a better Germany” pushed into the background.

In contrast to other former AfD members who had left the party in recent years, the digital politician did not justify her move directly with a further shift to the right by the AfD. Rather, Cotar wrote: "The extreme right-wing fringe of the AfD was and is not the problem, it was always in the minority." for which they still stand today".

In addition, Cotar criticized "the close proximity of leading AfD officials to the President of the Russian Federation", Vladimir Putin. She doesn't want to and won't support this anymore. She stated: "The pandering of the AfD to the dictatorial and inhuman regimes in Russia, China and now also Iran are unworthy of an upright democratic and patriotic party."

Cotar started in 2021 together with Joachim Wundrak to lead the AfD as a top duo in the federal election campaign. The two lost in a member survey. Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel won the race.

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