Syrian refugee elected mayor of German town, years after fleeing war

Source: CNN — Top stories

A Syrian who arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2015 has won a mayoral election in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg.

This is a summary provided by CNN — Top stories. Read the complete story on the publisher’s website.

Continue reading at CNN — Top stories ↗

More in Politics

See all →

Cookie settings

Choose which cookies we may use. You can change this at any time from Cookie settings in the footer. Details of each cookie are in the Cookie Policy.

Strictly necessary

Needed for sign-in, security, payments and remembering these choices. Always on.

Preferences

Remember settings such as dark mode.

Analytics

Help us understand visits and countries – anonymous and aggregated.

Marketing

Used to measure and personalise adverts and social media content.