Multicultural Malmo: Swedish city loathed by far right braces for election

*Some interviewees asked that their surnames be withheld because of the political nature of the interviews.Malmo, Sweden – A very Swedish political tradition is playing out in Malmo, the country’s third-largest city. Rows of twee campaign booths, known as “election cottages”, are packed into a corner of the central square.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Sweden confirms Russian drone intercepted near French aircraft carrierlist 2 of 3‘I did nothing wrong’: Sweden’s migration regime hardens, upending liveslist 3 of 3How a Swedish Palestinian minister raised controversy with Star of Davidend of listNational polls have Sunday’s election on a knife-edge, with the centre-left opposition bloc led by the Social Democrats just a few percentage points ahead of the right-wing group – a gap that has tightened over the past month.In the middle of the row, representatives of the Left Party and the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), bitter rivals from opposite ends of the political spectrum, campaign a metre apart.Migration is a key election issue. Multicultural Malmo, with more than a third of the city’s 368,000 residents born outside Sweden, has become the centre of the debate.For t...