Almost six years ago, he was fleeing military conscription in Syria, and now he's trying to win a seat in Germany's parliament.

A loss drifted across the Aegean in a rubber boat before walking most of the way from Athens to Vienna.

He plans to run for the Greens in a former coal mining region of western Germany in a national election in September.

His candidacy is dependent on his application for German citizenship being approved.

When he arrived in Germany in 2015, he felt safe for the first time in years.

But he was shocked at what awaited him a bed in a gym alongside 16 other refugees where he was prohibited from working and not given lessons in German.

My perspective, my perspective as someone affected by all this was missing in politics.

No one represents me.

So I co founded a political group of refugees and we carried out several actions.

Now he has a platform, a loss, plans to run on issues that will improve the situations for other refugees.

The refugees face systemic discrimination in this society.

They are affected by racism and boy laws on asylum and residence.

Those are experiences that refugees share, and I want to work on bringing about changes in these areas to have a village, Michigan OH Anderson.

The Greens say a loss would be the first refugee elected to the federal parliament.

Opinion polls put the left leaning Green's second behind Angela Merkel's conservative bloc.