Andalusia election is harbinger of new political era in Spain

ALMERIA, Spain (Reuters) - An election on Sunday in Spain's Andalusia region, where one in three people are out of work, is an early test of how deeply the anti-austerity sentiment that brought Syriza to power in Greece has taken root across Europe's southern rim.

Andalusia is the first of three local votes leading up to a year-end national election that will measure sentiment in a country often hailed as a model of European economic recovery at the hands of German-inspired spending cuts and reforms.