Alina Zotea-Durnea (born 8 December 1986) is a

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n economist, model and politician. Born in Cantemir, she became a model at age fifteen, and continued her involvement in the activity through her twenties. She graduated from high school in 2007, and in 2011 obtained a degree from the economics faculty of

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."Alina Zotea va ajunge deputat în Parlament"
agora.md, July 31, 2015 Zotea joined the

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(PL) in 2005, and became a personal assistant to party leader

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in 2014. In that year's election for the

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, she ran on the party's lists, in 19th position. During the campaign, some online commentators questioned her fitness for office, citing her provocative modeling photographs. In August 2015, when five PL members of parliament resigned in order to join the new

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, one of the vacancies fell to Zotea, who agreed to fill it. Her term began early the following month, after validation from the

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. In autumn 2017, Zotea married Vlad Durnea; she gave birth to a child a year later."Deputata Alina Zotea a devenit mămică"
Unimedia, October 19, 2018

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