Syrian migrants allowed in by Merkel vote to choose her successor

FILE PHOTO: Syrian migrant Zake Khalil (R), his wife Nagwa (L) and their four children Joan (3rd L), Torin (3rd R), Ellen (2nd R) and newborn Hevin arrive at the Austrian-German border in Achleiten near Passau, Germany, October 27, 2015. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Tarek Saad is keen to help other Syrian refugees who have fled the war in their homeland to make a new home in Germany and he sees the federal election on Sept. 26 as an opportunity to do just that.

Saad is campaigning in his adopted state of Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic coast for the Social Democrats (SPD), a party he joined in 2016, just two years after he arrived in Germany bearing two gunshot wounds he had survived in Syria.