EDITORIAL: Mr. Rajoy is promising to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs over the next two years, but Spanish voters should not trust him on such matters given his dishonesty since 2011.

This morning, Mr. Rajoy’s economy minister, Luis de Guindos, announced with less than a month to go before the European elections, that the future is now bright once more for the Spanish economy and that the government would be creating 600,000 new jobs for Spaniards in 2014 and 2015, thanks to forecast GDP growth. He was even more optimistic about 2016 and 2017.

The first problem with this idea is that the jobs promise keeps getting smaller. Just six months ago, in November 2013, the Spanish prime minister, was swearing, hand-on-heart, “convinced”, that he would create one million jobs in the next two years. Perhaps it was the emotion of the moment as he celebrated two years in Moncloa, the Spanish Downing Street.

In April 2012, six months after coming to power, Mr. de Guindos…