Sweden election 2018: Immigration among the most important issues to voters

Hussam Al-Homsi came to Sweden in 2015, along with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing unimaginable horrors in the Syrian war. Three years on, he finds himself part of a demographic group that’s at the centre of the biggest shock to Sweden’s political establishment in a century.

The country of about 10 million people will hold national elections on September 9, and polls show that immigration is among the most important issues to voters right now—if not the most important. The Sweden Democrats, a nationalist party that advocates much tougher controls on the number of migrants allowed in each year,