Did Péter Magyar take drugs? The mystery may unravel – even without an eagerly awaited video

In this year’s campaign, every claim and its opposite have surfaced, including politicians hurling drug accusations at one another. The government-aligned media have eagerly assailed Péter Magyar with a video that has yet to materialise, allegedly showing the Tisza Party leader consuming drugs. Magyar insists no such footage exists; if it does, it must be AI-generated. To be on the safe side, he submitted to a drug test at a Vienna laboratory.

Magyar undergoes drug test on himself

“I hope someone asks him why, more than 20 days on, he hasn’t taken the drug test he himself promised,” Fidesz MP Kocsis Máté declared yesterday at a press conference ahead of the ruling parties’ tour stop in Nagykőrös. It appears Magyar, heading to Nagykőrös today, has fulfilled his pledge.

The Tisza Party chairman announced on Facebook yesterday that he provided hair and urine samples on Sunday morning at a registered Vienna lab for a comprehensive drug test. The post notes that hair samples can detect drug use over an extended period.

Calls for politicians’ drug and alcohol tests

Magyar maintains he has never used narcotics, but claims Fidesz’s top brass are habitual consumers. He singled out MEP Tamás Deutsch, parliamentary group leader Kocsis Máté, Cabinet Minister Antal Rogán (who oversees intelligence services), Economy Minister Márton Nagy, István Tiborcz – the Prime Minister’s son-in-law, currently in New York with his family – and staff at the government-friendly Megafon media outfit.

He further declared that, should he win the 12 April election, politicians would face mandatory regular drug and alcohol testing.

Is the video even real?

Ruling party outlets have targeted Magyar for weeks with claims of a Budapest Airbnb video depicting him using drugs. He denies it outright, suggesting it might at most show a sexual encounter with an ex-girlfriend, who he says now slanders him for cash.

The footage remains under wraps; Magyar predicts it never will surface, or if it does, it will prove an AI fabrication.

Magyar’s lead holds firm

Since November 2024, Magyar and Tisza have topped the polls. Neither the government’s giveaway pledges nor recent smear campaigns have dented the advantage – not even Viktor Orbán’s efforts to paint Magyar as a puppet of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Brussels.

Experts caution, however, that Hungary’s skewed electoral system demands Tisza lead Fidesz by at least 5 per cent for a realistic shot at a parliamentary majority. Most surveys show a roughly 10-point Tisza edge, while betting platform Polymarket gives Magyar a two-thirds majority in wager volume.

If you missed our previous articles concerning the 2026 general elections:

• PM Orbán: Hungarian FM Szijjártó tapped; threads lead to Péter Magyar’s top diplomat
• Russian disinformation network spreads fake assassination and coup claims about Orbán