German national election: Bangladeshi Shahabuddin is fighting

Desk report: The German national election will be held on September 26. And Shahabuddin Mia is being elected as the first Bangladeshi in this national election of Germany. He is running for the Green Party from the country’s South District constituency No. 146. He is currently a member of the Suez District Council in the German state of Northern Rhine-Westphalia. Shahabuddin Mia has been involved in the politics of the Green Party, a German environmentalist party, for almost two decades. He also contested the country’s 2017 national elections from the Green Party as a candidate in the Bundestag. Shahabuddin Mia is the first Bangladeshi to run as a candidate in the German parliamentary elections. Expatriate Bangladeshi Shahabuddin Mia is optimistic about winning this time as the support of the Green Party, an environmentalist political party, has increased in Germany. If elected, Shahabuddin Mia will be the first Bangladeshi member of the German parliament. Shahabuddin Miah was born in 1956 in the village of Bajitpur in Madaripur district of Bangladesh. He migrated to Germany in 1969 after completing Honors from Titumir College, Dhaka. Shahabuddin started his career after completing his Masters from Dortmund University in the country. In Germany’s national election, one voter has to cast two votes. One directly to a member candidate in his constituency and the other to any one political party. Half of the 598 seats in Germany’s federal parliament (Bundestag), or 299 seats, will be elected by direct vote, and the other half will be elected as a percentage of the party’s votes across the country.