Spain holds its second general election in six months today, after Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE) walked away from a possible left-wing coalition with the radical-left Unidas Podemos. The center-left PSOE is set to remain the largest party, but last-minute polling shows its support down nearly two points on its 28.7 percent result in the April 2019 election.

The vote comes just three weeks after Sánchez’s government finally made good on its promise to disinter fascist dictator Francisco Franco, previously housed in a grandiose mausoleum at the Valley of the Fallen outside Madrid. The monument had been a stain on Spanish democracy for decades. Yet by calling unnecessary repeat elections under conditions well-suited to the far right, Sánchez looks to have handed Franco-nostalgists a historic opportunity to become a major political force.

Indeed, while the Socialists are expected to suffer at least small losses, the far-right Vox is likely to become the country’s third-largest party. The last polls forecast that this extremist outfit would take between 12 and 14 percent of the vote — meaning that it could win as many as fifty of the 350 seats in the Spanish Congress.