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see. yeah. could is feeling though. lots of it. this is the jacket i was wearing as we fled, and i was allowed to keep it when we got into the dinging style for the interested in volume. and to an extent, it's also a memory of my 1st home, see how it has an emotional meaning for me from, from the model for this. uh, my name's videos shipped. uh, i'm 29 years old and originally come from southern syria. so i've lived in germany for almost 8 years now in the cal region outings tend to be exact info and i think step life is so crazy for me. on 7 years ago i was in the refugee shelter and today i'm the mayor. it's amazing how often tastic, massages and $0.50 in his office and i came in to he said,

do you think i could stand the man? i don't know if he said of all those times as i thought it was obvious. yeah, so my 1st reaction was re on forget a try and you too young to inexperienced and we weren't sure if us those time was too conservative. when somebody's going to choose him, he just migrate you to. yeah, and i just said you called code to the other guy just because he has a house and offices time. that's not how it was just picked up for the park. it says a lot about the pragmatism of the people here that they were asking, can he do the job? so i think it's very legitimate to ask, can someone with such a different cultural background of the young man the it's tapped, the

good. the advice comes as an election campaign is really hard and it's a major life change and, and that's why i'm relieved that today is hopefully the last day of campaigning. no one there either. and by employees, by how supervisors come when you go door to door canvas thing, especially you get to meet people who often don't want to have much to do with you in daily life vista. hi, i, mr. i was shovel a candidate for may or may i introduce myself briefly? no, we don't have time now on puts them in detail. and yet, and they're still there and you have to confront them because that's what the role of mayor is all about. as so representing everyone,

even people who don't think much of you for the image to has yeah, not a share. good afternoon for some of the time of the yano chapel candidate for may or may i briefly introduce myself. i'm on by says my flyer. i'd love to leave it with you. have you heard about me? my candidacy? oh, not yet. the street is interesting that perhaps we can talk to this gentleman here as i'm fine. so the election is on april the 2nd. it's the may or a little action here in awful time. i'll give you my flyer gun and on my side. thanks. bye. so. so let's take a look over here. as capstone pal, looking at the ad huffman, it's classic. there were a few times with someone who was clear here, right? we next 3 missed on the, on the to a while, canvas thing or 2 about it. there was one time is competent for someone who is a supporter of the other candidates and it's made their own post as saying they prefer to have a sway being local for the town on time for the whole past month. but that ended up

not well receive can destiny, but because of people's done actually want to judge candidates from where they come from, all but on their own vision and ability, right? via dimensions. and because that's how they fulfill the duties of the job and my son face cutting them it point where he comes from this actually relevant womach f and google. nice. but i'm a food as what the heck wants to saying that he is an event that you shouldn't say you green so often. so oh really? yeah, there are very few here. i mean, you do this on here. it's all about the local, near election, the party politics don't play a role when it gets frustrated. and i mentioned they're a little different people, you know, still assignment to, there's still not only green on the green, you know, exactly which been him up at sunset the, i'm,

the parents go to the village kindergarten coffee. since i work as a graphic design, understood somebody else with my help and join the team is a graphic designer. so if you need to all, and you help boost our social media presence enormously, or have you had a plan, we have, we developed a concept for how we would present ourselves on instagram and facebook to present to you. as long as this only happens that one social media media and it was really exciting to see that. and then we started getting our sponsors like, hey, if i put a facebook account now just the phone, are you this? that was cool. that's about with good afternoon customer. good afternoon. i heard you speak the last monday would say, okay, and how did you find it? very good. really glad to hear it and you can make it happen. let's see. i thank you. i'm so glad to hear positive feedbacks that's of them, causing the 90550 pass on their home in the course of test. so we've got 1900

people eligible to vote, and we have a large holes that can sit around 15500 people. there was a $600.00 therapy event. so you have to choose that is that it's eligible voters when to see these people that there's the end because we had yeah. and was basically an outside that who had to deliver an amazing performance in order to be seen and elected in savannah. and then another candidate from the village lost and plastic, stablish, the candidate company that we had this unbelievably dynamic connection campaign, which then they both have to prove themselves type, show what they could offer to show the career in really performing well. and that was great type people really got involved. hey austin, on the side the like, you know, it does it how it's built in dues. yes. and it's a democracy, democrats, you pick, i still don't all, it's done. and if it was one that i think you should, the mind as, as it's caused by the then my inside of my parents are both retired successful. my

father was an agricultural engineer, mainly for the civil service at the ministry of economics is yeah, well my mother was a high school teacher. okie dokie always made sure that she corrected us when it came to mastering the fine is details of language so to speak. that's also the house this het slope mind darcia, and i think that influenced my german learning a lot. this is where the submission of this one brings us an off funds to a longer time. i wouldn't necessarily say it's an obsessive compulsive disorder, but i'm interested in learning a language to a standard in which you can function in all walks of life in the movies and leaving and so, but also be able to speak at a refined level. if you have to express yourself selectively is something that isn't to be underestimated. if you're going into local politics or counseling. i have this is what's the force of the

complete volume of administrative rules for button button bag. the speakers of 10 to the grade reflects the state of digitize ation. here. i had to hold this around for 3 years while i was training as an administrative assistant supervisor and funk . instead i'm on the phone by. yeah. and but the content mit saving it at the beginning, he was a trainee here and couldn't speak months. jim. and i actually wondered if there was any point of contact then the people who took email and said yes, he's pretty good. i don't see them. he's paying by that's of ink dodge content, and then happy start and the whole from the business school didn't want to take him because he didn't speak enough to them. and so i called them up and made it very clear to them that it wasn't their business. it was out, let's say we hi and people and they have to train the pay so and if you can speak to them and well enough, that's our problem. either if they fail,

so it was time and effort and money lost so to speak, but it's our business now says they'll come with and that's how he got on. and then he learned so quickly and ultimately was among the top 5 percent of his year in the state of bottom boot bad. but that's is a lot of balancing that it shows we will write spectra in a site that's really nice talking a good afternoon. uh hello, mr. sheed to see i will ask you to come alone because we are introducing the candidates and we've commissioned to company for the broad cost, but i'd like you to be there as l i t x good. could you manage? this is the bias. the sort of course i'll be there any way why good on a team is good. then at this alice voice, which team development was eyes without clemens goods. all i wouldn't be where i am today for the training and especially the incredibly strong support now and during

the campaign of those without him, i wouldn't have dared take that step one and i had to shift in slippers to box sizes and to on the comments he was sitting in his office and i came in and he said, mr. goods, do you think i could stand for mammogram eyes to? i don't know if he said all of us those kinds of times, but it was all v. as i said, of course, is it setup survey throughout this? yeah, i think helped me, as i said, when do you get a link to these another mass and then finally the but i thought sure he could run enough to assign someone like that would do them good. i wasn't thinking about him being a refugee or his story. well, i just thought to myself, this guy is good at the time that i'm fucking that them on this quote if and it says a lot about the pragmatism of the people here. so i think they were asking some can he do the jones program i step out and fantasy? i think it's legitimate to ask if can someone with such

a different cultural background b, l man, fact come that this so you'll so young. but well, he has experienced the last hub. sure. if you know the move in, most people would wish to experience in the life of a mother. can he make decisions in the uh yes, he's had to make different decisions than we've had to do with those. how can we have a life with him? does he have al sense of humor? can he do administrative task? yes, you can. he's loved it from the bucks a month. let's see what you've got to offer you a month. that's it. and then someone who's among the top 5 percent of the year just fine is pull starting point things for how said so he's interested, he's a good listener. that's very, very important. hello, you've got everything you need. and elizabeth hi know, on the show was kind of, i grew up in a beautiful volcanic region,

bucks and then fish a sway. the. it's called us a way to get the in the tools, a mountain and score beyond mountain systems. my phone, which is where my name comes from, mind off in the some of the minds and if my town has 10000 people and sits around 900 meters above sea level me, it's all who are of the rocks and a lot of apple and olive trees grow there. it's a big agricultural center, good plate. step 5, where you go, i have 2 brothers, one, the 2nd one, the middle, one brother. nothing is included either because of the course of, from an early age. and do you always think that the oldest, or the youngest gets preferential treatment for folks in lots of haga all along, and you always feel disadvantaged or not? so i look for that. your the dumb one, the phone so this, well i didn't like that much as being from to time. the kind of guy who blows up when i'm wrong on so and my parents had to deal with that quite

a lot. let me sell my home. we had a lot of fights about that and class and even many of us because you only have the . ringback the design and the some, some was like we would do the student edition been dash, truly g invoice and what you'd call my primary school. it wasn't until the 6th grade about i was above average um and then my initial initial life. and then over the years my academic performance declines. lots and now they got worse and worse of dish. nothing. yeah.

base some of it for until i passed high school and had a piano after 2 and a half years and 3 or 4 attempts. however, that was a big deal, this flush on please, and like, how did your parents react to the disappointed russians, yvonne, all they were very disappointed disappointment on both sides of fighting size and the. ringback laws as others and succeed in materials of so i was rarely satisfied with myself and i'm overly self and critical for those of them on sort of the key owners of mine to i always keep trying to reflect on whether my actions or at least what i say the comment comes across the way, i want it to sweep up, leaving balls up on this as nothing. and of course that's something that tortures you convince us with this of this year anymore. so we'll striving to always be

perfect. perfect. so, so that's what motivates me, but also drives me of an awesome them. you know the all that old smile. a trust. unbelievable. yeah. 6 bits, line bits for my bed was there. i think. so one's an amazing morning. i lived here for 9 months or the 1st off to you on. so it's almost 8 years ago before christmas, 2015 in ohio and on. so we entered the room and saw 6 beds on you, but all prepared and a table right in the middle of this can on the me to your whole life contained in the locker like this. yes. yes. or at least the mobile i'm phones got this little

far the i can go notices for you. how does this involved that informed me of the missed fear at the beginning was terrible about the residents felt that they had not been informed a tool that such a long shelter would be built here helped of this and as pasta. i can remember that i tried to intervene with alma the twins helped us billiards and thoughtful does. who do i see? while i kept saying the situation cannot be changed and we should all try to make these people as welcome as possible. and then i ended up supervising the refugee with, with my wife and a group of people who wanted to work with asylum seekers who does the field and can build the tubs, you know, making what he makes a pair. remember the milkshake leanne and guides invited us to a milkshake, and that's my 1st memory as to where we sat down at a table like that. successes in india happens to to i in florida. and then i remember that well, the industrial, there were 5 of us and we were trying to communicate with hand movements and in

german and english size. yeah. it's got, doesn't like them. uh, just let me see. sure, i'm slag within that with those these. lemme could tax why and doug guns rianne and his friends made a great effort to distance themselves from this. and we got in touch with the local newspaper with your thoughts and plaza. tell me in my her. couldn't that. that's when we really got into more regular contact and then see if a couldn't talk. smith under kept the mice, then i got tv, get the bomb. and me, most of the negative thoughts were connected to the situation in syria with this kind of feeling of helplessness. buttons, how could i hope for a new life here, while the situation in my 1st home country was dramatically deteriorating again and again, you learn new things, discover new things to improve your qualifications and all the while things were getting dramatically worse for your parents, friends, and families that you put at someone dramatically your the one who has survived on others, formerly up to see if i'm able to get

a good time for them to mention in but also of course, i really missed my homeland, especially the people who i grew up with sponsors, after all, i lived there for 20 years. i deeply want to somehow re establish my connection with that place of helping them both here in the office to come to the impulse. and it says, look at us, let us on call us or hung us. you know, of course, you have to be lucky to find such a dedicated social environmental then where you have people you can turn to when things go wrong. so it's not just the day to day things, but emotional problems you want to discuss and sometimes need help with supposed to mean the is miss moore, i agree and able to cope with that isn't just my own achievement. and it's also because of the healthy support network. i have to fill out what i saw, big bags you planning on moving back to the bag and

a new book here. we're going to training lisa, we're about to go. since the issue is vega, the mass was stopped, so the only includes the good jobs. okay. even though is that kind of the problem is i don't know what a good shot is of the ones and come by the invited to homo. the passenger turned up with refugees fix 6 or 7 syrians and asked if he could bring them along. some of the stuff was no problem involved really. so people help contain ha, ha ha. yeah, that was the very 1st social connection i made so. so i think it's there so, oh so so you get to know is society well and gloves. one thing is this stuff and didn't count and can as live valued to get together after training more than the training itself. and now it's just us assuming silva, go buy one,

although i have to admit this, they speak less german and more sway the american express. so as the mantle also but learning the dialect is also essential for day to day life. as far as us is that for the, what was your 1st to when he said he'd stand samantha, feel as of just a moment law. so yeah, and my 1st reaction was re on forget it. you're too young to inexperienced enough and we weren't sure if us those time was too conservative about the face for, for all. but he was the head of our sports club for years after he arrived in germany, it was already heading the biggest department and the sports club, and then other ones, and he showed us money. i've already designed the homepage and we said, wow, that's really well done. and we knew we hadn't had

a good chat and so then it was clear. and so of course there were one or 2 instances of rejection. and how dare you play, but he always responded confidently. and there was never a problem either consumable ends without deals with his father's, okay. the massive when the lobby tool was made on the english leaving the trouble, this foot to him 7. but after high school, i enrolled at university to study finance and banking management. when the war started 2 and a half years later, everything turned on its had the admissions for the eliza pain gates. i had no idea where i was going, and gradually the security situation got worse. so and i had to ask myself, what will i do now? i'm in the habits mission. it's finally i decided to drop out

a set of succession in each boss from 16 i had been exempt from conscription because i've been studying about that. and then i wasn't the one most one done so, mean at some point i would have to join the army just kind of but that was not an option for me. so so i'm just showing us the final cobra from few. so there was this little group of 4 students, we couldn't see a future now. so the threat of military draft was the main reason for us to say that's enough to help cool. let's leave the country. it's just, you know, the philosopher son says all pick on storm syrians couldn't even get visas for jordan back then bonnie: and as a judge to one most neighboring countries stopped issuing them,

but hadn't bought this car stopped. the astonish advisor bought the vehicle and it's ok of them, but amazingly, it was somehow possible to get to turkey. you didn't need a visa. we booked flights and fluted turkey. think it's ok. i find these are cooper with friend of mine in the group had contact with a smuggler or yourselves of all this had informed me of we were kind of have told what would happen on the head says dogmas off. and then we were very uneasy before the by other but at the time we had no alternative. i've done that simple. so the, so we decided to risk it to examples of my pulse to mind game we have seen the good for me to invest in sports. i got into the boat shortly before midnight, which was real folks. and it was a boat for 15 to 20 people in most concept fields. ok the but in total,

the font plus there were $49.00 of us topic on the floor. that was the 1st scary moment and it's good for us. so that's, that's about cause it's safe. let's say show that to this knife, of course not pulse since i met him about at some point you reached the point of no return on august the 5th and we were told that we'd have to get rid of everything that wasn't absolutely essential because they had to reduce cargo weight in the process for you guys have about this distance does accept the multi 1000000 in a little bit. and also i realized that the backpack i was carrying with all my things, my reminders of homes i could do. but it wasn't actually that important. this was about survival of it. it was cold. no, it was a night in november and at some point the waves got

a lot bigger bar to screw up. glass begins, the water started to flow into the boat to united. so freezing on and you get scared dob to comes to the 1st you vs. what's going through your mind? so what does it feel like to drown thing? the guy's beginning and then all the mothers and children started screaming and framing to be the basement is supposed to the highest until we reached the island of less verse. i think those were the hardest moments of my life. felix inside the savings team on with us, let me talk to you

for some time now. so what does that kind of experience due to a person who isn't knocking 9 this deal? in retrospect, i think that experience ended up being a huge help. some virus him of the does your certificate lawlessness, but as of a guy when things kept going wrong here later in all aspects of my life, difficulties kept cropping up with accommodation, my job, and socially as much as it's an devious elements. whenever i thought about that experience i, so when i went through that night investment, everything here looks like a walk in the park. let's have to assess this. you can talk about that. the

oven is close to find fun and soon i'm not usually a big fan of suits. i much prefer jeans and the white shirt, the in san middleton by spun face. so given us a lot of sense and 10 minutes, we'll get the results. and of course, so if it goes my way, it will be a major life change that i have handled as all right on top and tasted in the end us as a class. and i hope that it works out for me on this evening. so. so mr. table, you can see on instagram who's following mr. strauss and mr. tables,

it's really interesting the all, it's great to little place like house is clear about what we want. we want to go this in, these are 2 very different people. so i have 2 people who are both very searchable . ok, it's time now for the election results. and so to begin, the 1st swing goes to our voters with a turnout of 68.39 percent we have to invalid balance is $1359.00 is valid balance devices of the 753 votes for mr. re i noticed you have a mr. marco strauss had 591 votes and wisdom, my ts 515. both have michael suppose from from the united 60 bank gives mr. re on those have a 55.41 percent of the balance. not so we fingerprints to come off the

portal us and view your citizens. it is of course, difficult to say something at a moment like this. when words fail, you talked to hostile time has set an example sites, an example for the whole of germany and to one of the simple people, the tires themselves, and examples of tolerance, openness and the good cooperation with us. so i take my hand off to you, so i'm really speechless,

but the thing i'm pretty much done because you always wherever you're living in this problem, under only losing certain cycles with your own people and getting a distorted picture of the well. but this is totally fantastic. the mazda of this evening, so far as almost life is so crazy. as a policy beyond those 7 years ago, i was in the refugee shelter. and today, i'm the mayor. hard to scroll down by itself. it's amazing. doesn't fantastic hold on as long as it's hard to describe tons of his 5 the additional into the budget for holding the match

to buckley replace their over joy business. he's excited by not getting tired spice because on the top of the house he said, since i was little i was special, i bet every mother says banzai's buttons. on the other hand, she says on those moans like coming close to the incredible dedication to a welcoming culture in germany is what made this possible. like it's talking about the site into the and help me if i'm to the house navigate most of a floyd, it's a bubble my time with re on gave me hope and according to the me told me, is that the joy of seeing someone who started out with such a miserable conditions and then made so much of it on them on the front of the a. n. o is then that is 250 a month to see someone who in the beginning was

a foreigner as to become someone in whom you put your hope for change. that's why i took it as a versa, as best i was kind of kind of pushing it couldn't have gone based on the history even man. so it's like when your child grows up and when you see young people growing up and then you see, look, they've made something of themselves. all this the task solve i, it's my 1st day on the job. i have not been officially sworn in yet, but the show that i'm going to start official business today. so let's see how it goes. i think it's going to be exciting. i really hate this as a focus kind of do you know how to tie it? oh no,

no idea i think i better leave it so it's okay without the it's in the office. the nice view, click off with a view to the potential new village center or golf sample. know something, but i can get to you. there are a few places where some pictures will go up here, for example, and thoughts and in that corner. oh, that's nice and such a nice greeting. typically, i missed

a man. how does that seal habits of clock? oh, i've been asking myself that 2 of the um yeah, the got well it's a totally new situation. yeah. and you have to get used to the new title 9 to think of a good a the full funds is uh, what are you looking forward to? most of everything assessments stuff. i guess those have been about lies and courses team on the bus. when i ran for this post, one of the big issues for many residents here was why us those time doesn't have any place where people across generations can meet, where they used to be. lots of restaurants today, there are none and it's gone. and there's basically nowhere for people to me off now on the 1st you mentioned the club, then is the soonest my, the front as the fire gun. that if i follow my dream, this concept, it's not a complete concept yet for the thought. i could imagine something here that you could call a new modern village center on this stuff sent home. then 2 of us with apartments

for senior citizens on and on. and meeting place is for everyone to either side on both the time of this, of course was because of the that's a long way off to get inside the local council. have to decide on the other the other does just need to go for not personally, my inclination would be to involve the residents early so their ideas can be incorporated. it's not just about what the mayor thinks would be good or the counsel, and then what else? i think it would be a great project to sell me assistance. and that's political 1st question. upkeep, plenty of other entities from ford was obviously that was clear to me even before the election that politicians make the promises and then end up making compromise, as mentioned. so that's why i tried to convey this vision to people. these up is and these visions or goals we should work on together. right. and so the hello

yes, may offer my congratulations. thank you. congratulations. i'm really pleased to help in may a here in my solemn, i don't know how i heard you on the radio. you're being praised all over the place already or, or do you live in also signed to guessing it will be yvonne kado until we were just passing by the future village center. biggest off then hold which me so much search . then when i 1st became self employed, it was really nice. it was lively. there was a cafe next to me, then a bookshop level and then up there. what's it called? one of those. erica show this minute it come with the counselors. now, why don't they need your little advocacy to market known as some kind of a to come off that was great. and now always go to his offices or maybe you'll change that tom and let's see, you know, you know and can do miracles. but i'd really like it. all right, let's just let me find the shop 9. it's donna,

this year we have a lady and we are honoring her for 10 voluntary blood donations and get this a coach bennett, that's a sponsor that's plague. it's our own town council. member, mrs. pitts. i'm pleased to that you've come now for 10 donations. you get a lovely 10 is what if i said a lot of spend so the was i'm next to talk so it looks full, but a so next on the agenda is something a bit more interesting. i suppose i could have fits about the way child care costs are being calculated differently as part of parental contributions with uh, nipples on this list got sliced, done. and sir, similarly for that, it hasn't been easy to make a decision in this 1st week of office meetings to deal with this the kansas to miss

that's will be holding. that's what convinced me to vote in favor of raising it. this is the fact that we have the most significant wage increase in the history of the public sector this year to this of inspection, vince, this has and as of plus and come out some flip side, almost 10.5 percent more pay for kindergarten teachers. and i said at the same time we need to operate sustainably. so about soft about view thomas and so forth. foot ceilings and they'll be a button, but it won't happen straight away. we'll wait until the end of the year in the office for the at the same time. it is not pleasant news for parents, especially since there are already some who are unhappy with the municipalities. performance regarding child care in mind is this, this kind of as for the compliments it through, yes, compromises are part of politics and local politics. groups isn't part of being

human. so making compromises which mark this, what's in the cost to me. i don't like the word integration because it's become connected to certain cliches. this emma default, it's always the idea that we have a group of people who are under developed one and 2 we want to integrate into our system team into the last one. on one of them, the idea is that they learn the language off and on to here and who and we give them jobs like butcher baker, beck or cleaner. one of the hi nick oaks of date is cotton from y'all's, the most out of school doing that, and that's fine. i respect all of those jobs i listen to from about it should be missed him, but i don't always want to be seen in this context. so you become integrated, you've learned something useful, those concepts and now you can do a trade unbox. no, that's not what i want. i can't do it to me. so i have no practical skills to say.

i see my talents elsewhere, isn't bland. at some point i decided i want to be there. now that's integration, isn't it platform, is it something else us? the yeah it's, it's a caught in my them, if a bomb and yes, i'm sitting in my warm office while many residents are outside, busy getting ready for our festival tomorrow. the ones, the 1st she's in the office very is local bands will be offering musical accompaniment and entertainment and sodom. the 1st honest and no other than the new mayor will be tapping the barrow more than tomorrow at 3 pm. come to us to sign on saturday or sunday. it'll be worth it as long as this buffet. are you worried about tapping the barrel? no, i'm not. not holding back. so and now when it comes, carter more more. carrie on the floor. oh this

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