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Michal Šimečka

SlovakiaParty leaderParty leader, Slovakia

Slovak party leader who became the target of one of Europe’s first consequential election deepfakes: a fabricated audio recording purporting to capture him discussing vote-buying spread in the final days before the 2023 parliamentary election, during the 48-hour moratorium when campaigning and polling are barred and rebuttal is hardest.

This is not a biography collection. Entries cover a person's record on elections and voting rights only, and every entry carries a citation to a court ruling, an official finding, or an election-observation report. Nothing appears here without a source, and inclusion is not a judgement about a person.

Electoral record

Each entry is dated, categorised by what it did to the conduct of an election, and cited.

  1. 2023RecordedCandidacy

    Led his party into the parliamentary election, finishing second.

    Elections in Slovakia — election observation reports — OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
  2. 2023Subject of a findingAction

    A fabricated audio recording impersonating him circulated in the final days of the campaign, during the pre-election moratorium. Fact-checkers identified it as synthetic; the moratorium limited the scope for public rebuttal.

    Elections in Slovakia — election observation reports — OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

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