BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar said on Wednesday that he would file a criminal complaint against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief political aide for publishing what Magyar said was a deepfake video of him generated by artificial intelligence.

Magyar’s centre-right Tisza party leads most opinion polls ahead of elections due in April 2026.

Aide Balazs Orban, who is not related to the prime minister, published a 38-second video on Facebook on Tuesday that purported to show Magyar saying that he would cut pensions.

The allegedly AI-generated video was published less than six months before a parliamentary election that could be Viktor Orban’s toughest since he entered office in 2010, with the economy stagnating.

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