Thu, 2021-02-04 00:09
LONDON: A Syrian who fled his country’s conflict in 2015 is running to become an MP in Germany’s general election this September.
Tareq Alaows, 31, is set to run for the Green Party in Oberhausen and Dinslaken, an industrial constituency in the country’s west.
“I want to become the first person who escaped from Syria to enter the Bundestag (Parliament) and lend a political voice to the hundreds of thousands of fugitives who are living with us today,” he said.
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