Samsung battery plant turns toxic for Orban's re-election campaign

The allegations revealed by Hungarian news site Telex last month come at a sensitive time for nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban as he faces an unprecedented challenge to his 16 years in power in elections next month. While Orban and Samsung have dismissed the allegations, opposition leader Peter Magyar, whose party has been polling ahead of Orban's since last year, has said it underlines the corruption he pledges to fight. The South Korean industrial giant established its battery plant in 2017...