Lisel Heise
Lisel Heise, a great-grandmother from Germany has said she is going into politics.
Heise, who retired from teaching school 40 years ago, was arguing for the reopening of an outdoor pool.
“When I started out, some people really didn’t want to listen to me apparently — they even pulled the plug!” she said, still stunned by the impudence.
“Now people from around the world are coming to talk to me. Who’s laughing now?”
What changed was Heise’s election, against the odds, to the town council of Kirchheimbolanden in southwestern Germany just weeks after she embarked on her second century on the planet.
Those concerns have also dovetailed into another pet cause: climate protection.
“The kids really give me hope. There is a tendency in politics to favour the car industry and that’s counterproductive,” she said.
“It’s great that the youth aren’t just waiting for the grownups to do something.”
Heise, who takes daily walks through the quaint old town of Kirchheimbolanden, population 8,000, is part of a groundswell of seniors unwilling to sit out their dotage on the sidelines of public life.
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