内容摘要：Traveling is part of his routine. He meets with colleagues to exchange anecdotes and contacts, but also encounters local farmers and spends time in remote communities to understand how food and tradition intertwine.

Traveling is part of his routine. He meets with colleagues to exchange anecdotes and contacts, but also encounters local farmers and spends time in remote communities to understand how food and tradition intertwine.

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with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The hard-right nationalist who lostsaid Tuesday he has asked a top court to annul the election results, alleging that foreign interference and coordinated manipulation affected Sunday’s vote.

of the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians had conceded defeat after losing in the runoff to, the Bucharest mayor who obtained 53.6% of the vote, a margin of more than 829,000 votes.

Simion said in a statement he has filed a request to Romania’s Constitutional Court to annul the vote, claiming he had “irrefutable evidence” that France, Moldova and “other actors” meddled in the ballot, but did not present any evidence. He also alleged that “deceased people” had participated in the vote.

He alleged “an orchestrated effort to manipulate institutions, direct media narratives and ultimately impose a result that does not reflect the sovereign will of the Romanian people.”“It needs experts to get involved in various public policies, it needs people in civil society, it needs new people in politics,” the 55-year-old said. “We have a Romania to build together, regardless of political choices.”

Born in 1969 in Romania’s central town of Fagaras, Dan discovered “a passion” for mathematics in middle school and excelled academically. In the late 1980s, he won gold medals at the International Mathematics Olympiad, and in 1998 he obtained a doctorate in mathematics from Paris’ prestigious Sorbonne University.In the late 90s, he returned to Romania, saying he was convinced his country needed him. “I started organizing meetings with Romanian students in Paris in which we discussed what we could do to ensure that Romania took the right path as a country,” he states on his official website.

He then worked as a mathematics researcher at the Romanian Academy, the country’s supreme scientific body, and later founded a school in Bucharest to meet the needs of Romanian students at an international level.Dan first rose to public prominence as a civil activist with his Save Bucharest Association. That was tasked with saving built heritage and fighting against illegal real estate projects in green spaces, in a system he described as a “real estate mafia.” He won hundreds of lawsuits.