# Spain's PP posts deepfake video of PM's wife weeks before election

> Spain's conservative opposition party released an AI-generated video putting words in the mouths of Socialist figures, sparking a debate over deepfakes in politics.
- Title: Spain's PP posts deepfake video of PM's wife weeks before…
- Summary: Spain's conservative opposition party released an AI-generated video putting words in the mouths of Socialist figures, sparking a debate over deepfakes in…
- Keywords: spain, people's party, pedro sánchez, deepfake, election, disinformation, technology, startups, Spain's, posts, video, PM's
- Source: The Next Web — https://thenextweb.com/news/spain-deepfake-video-pp-sanchez-wife-election
- Author: Ana-Maria Stanciuc
- Published: 2026-10-26T11:05:02+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: spain, people's party, pedro sánchez, deepfake, ai, election, disinformation, technology, startups
## PP releases deepfake campaign video
Spain's conservative People's Party posted an AI video on October twenty-first featuring deepfakes of figures linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's Socialists confessing to wrongdoing. The election is November twenty-ninth.
## What the video shows
An AI version of Sánchez's wife, Begoña Gómez, talks about getting a university post through her husband's job.A deepfake of former Socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero discusses hiding jewellery.
## The video goes viral
By Friday the video had nearly two million views.The PP posted it on X with the words Sí, son zurdos, quoting Sánchez saying he was left-handed.An AI label appeared in tiny, nearly transparent text.

> Sí, son zurdos
## Government and legal response
Óscar López, Spain's digital transformation minister, called the video a colossal lie.On Friday, former Socialist party member Leire Díez filed a court complaint against the PP, reportedly accusing them of defamation and digital identity theft.
## Legal experts split on legality
Most of nine legal experts told El País the video was not illegal, marked as AI-made and political satire.But Juan Antonio Lascuraín said legality was one question; ethics another.

> Given the context, everyone knows those people didn't say those things.
## PP defends the video as satire
Borja Sémper of the PP told reporters the video was not meant to deceive. He said it was a way of using digital tools to highlight Socialist hypocrisy, not malicious intent to make people believe…

> If there had been malicious intent to make people believe that the characters who appear there are real, then we'd have a problem.
## Key takeaway

Spain's People's Party posted a deepfake video on October twenty-first featuring AI likenesses of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife and other Socialist figures confessing to wrongdoing, five weeks before the November twenty-ninth election.