Bettina Fortunato

Bettina Fortunato , née Bettina Alter (born June 27, 1957 in Bitterfeld , Halle district , GDR ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). From 2009 to 2014 she was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament . Since June 6, 2016, she has been a member again as a replacement for Stefan Ludwig .

Life and work

Fortunato grew up in Serbitz ( Delitzsch district ) and attended the ten-class high school in Zschernitz from 1964 to 1972. This was followed by a visit to the extended high school in Delitzsch until 1975. After that, she prepared for the following studies in Bulgaria at the workers and farmers faculty in Halle / Saale until 1976 , where she also received her Abitur. At the Agricultural University " Vassil Kolarov " in Plovdiv she studied until 1981, the state examination took off and got the final diploma agronomist for viticulture and vegetable production.

In 1981 Fortunato returned to the GDR and worked until 1992 as brigade leader , deputy division manager and deputy department manager for vegetable production at the agricultural production cooperative (LPG) "Oderbruchgemüse" and its successor in Gorgast .

Between 1992 and 2000 she was the head of various tourism projects in the Seelow area , in the Letschin offices ; Lebus , Golzow and Neuhardenberg active. Among other things, she worked for four years at Fort Gorgast . From 2000 to 2009 she was employed by her husband's advertising agency. From 2015 to June 5, 2016 she was the coordinator of the Brandenburg regional group of the DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.

Fortunato has been married to a former fellow student , a Portuguese , since 1983 , lives in Manschnow and has three children.

politics

In 1976 she became a member of the SED , since 1990 of the PDS and its successor. From 1993 to 2012 she was a member of parliament in Manschnow and there also deputy mayor of the Küstriner Vorland community . In addition, she has been a member of the Märkisch-Oderland district council and district chairwoman of her party since 2003 .

In the state elections in 2009, she was directly elected to the Brandenburg state parliament in the Märkisch-Oderland IV state electoral district. There she was a member (since 2012 chairwoman) of the petitions committee, the electoral review committee, the committee for home affairs and the committee for labor, social affairs, health, women and family as well as spokeswoman for the asylum, refugee, migrant and foreigner policy of her group. She lost her mandate in the state elections in Brandenburg in 2014 , but was able to move in again on June 6, 2016 as a successor. Here she is again a member of the Petitions Committee and vice-chair of the Committee on Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family. In the parliamentary group she took on the role of spokeswoman for social, health, care and senior citizens policy from René Wilke .

Web links

• Biography page for the 7th electoral term in the Brandenburg state parliament
• Bettina Fortunato - Official Website
• Parliamentary documentation Brandenburg (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)