Syrian migrants allowed in by Angela Merkel vote to choose her successor
Saad is campaigning in his adopted state of Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic coast for the Social Democrats , a party he joined in 2016, just two years after he arrived in Germany bearing two gunshot wounds he had survived in Syria.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open the door to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in 2015 was a defining issue of Germany's last federal election campaign in 2017."I am happy to have this opportunity but I am being cautious and maybe I won't vote," said Maher Obaid, 29, who lives in the town of Singen near the Swiss border.
"The longer a person stays in Germany... the more likely they are to feel they understand and can participate in political life," it said. But with Merkel bowing out of politics after 16 years at the helm, many Syrians are now making different calculations.
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