Heck, the old Soviet Emperors and Castro didn't intervene in elections, openly, and sent diplomatically-correct congratulations.
And another aspect being ignored by the phony liberal news is, the allegence between his Socialist (Communist) party and the ilk WWP Workers World Pary (also Communist, with allegence to anti-USA terrorists such as Muslim terror) - the allegence between the two can be discovered in 5 minutes by coming to San Francisco CA and looking at the literature of the WWP company.
This is the leftist wing that wants the US to lose the war on terror, the leftist wing that actually aids, in so many ways, the terrorist network, including the illegal aliens from Morocco who are terrorists prior to 911, prior to Iraq, who have entered into Spain and in fact train WITH organizations such as ETA.
It is not really a misrepresentation to say, as did some protesters in Spain AGAINST the Socialist government have said today, this wasn't a victory, an election, of the Socialist Party, but of the al-Quaeda.