When Mueen Baslik fled Afghanistan to Germany in 2013 at the age of 21, there was exactly one federal state he didn’t want to go to. People said to him: “Don’t go to Bavaria.” There, it was said, refugees were treated particularly harshly. So Baslik tried applying for asylum in Karlsruhe. There he was sent to Munich and finally to the community of Adelsried in the Augsburg district – where he has lived ever since, worked in office management after training as a businessman and was allowed to vote for the first time in the Bavarian state elections on October 8th.
Tens of thousands of naturalized people are allowed to vote in the Bavarian election – Bavaria
