Pedro Sánchez (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) has been Prime Minister of Spain since 2 Jun 2018. Spain's real GDP rose 1.8% a year under Pedro Sánchez, in office since June 2018, against +1.4% for the European Union. Spain ranks 3rd of 19 EU governments on the fall in unemployment; on the rise in the rule of law it is 8th of 10. On regulatory quality the two part most: −8.9 points in Spain, −3.1 points for the European Union. Under Mariano Rajoy (2011 to 2018) the same series rose 1.3% a year. The employment rate is 73.0% of the population aged 20–64 (Q2 2026), 6.6 percentage points above its level at day zero.

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