Spain’s hard-right Vox party joins a regional government

A DAY AFTER Marine Le Pen reached the second round in France’s presidential election, the regional parliament in Spain’s Castilla y León approved a new government, the country’s first to include Vox, a hard-right party. Visiting the region for the investiture vote, Santiago Abascal, Vox’s leader, took time to tweet congratulations to Ms Le Pen on a “great result”, saying France, like the rest of Europe, faced a choice between “sovereignty and reindustralisation or progressivist globalisation that is ruining us”.