Vox flopuli

21 December 2018 By Liam Proud Follow @liamwardproud

Rising support for anti-immigrant Vox makes life harder for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who was already struggling to pass a budget. That’s bad news for the labour market. Growth is slowing and politicians are unable to enact reforms that might help the unemployed.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will on Dec. 21 decree a 22 percent rise in the country’s minimum wage, the biggest in four decades.

Spain's far-right Vox party won 12 out of 109 seats in a regional election in Andalusia on Dec. 2. It could end up holding the balance of power after the first electoral success for the far-right since the country's return to democracy in the late 1970s.

The ruling socialists came first with 33 seats out of 109, but failed to win outright in a region that they have historically dominated. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's minority government has struggled to gain support to pass any meaningful laws since taking control in June.

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