Round 3: Tossup 12

Members of this diaspora who served in the French Foreign Legion formed the PMC RALF under “Lieutenant Henry,” who backed the FARDC in North Kivu. The novel The Good Life Elsewhere (10[1])fictionalizes this diaspora immigrating to Italy as carers and cleaners. Lovage (“LUV-idge”) plants are a symbol of this largest diaspora in the EU, which runs the Interlope mafia. After 2009’s (-5[1])“Twitter Revolution,” London’s suburb of Burnt Oak (-5[1])became an enclave for this diaspora’s many builders. (-5[2])In their primary homeland, the “brain drain” from this diaspora’s mass emigration led voters to support (10[1])a nationalist agronomist whose 2024 victory was (-5[1])annulled by the Constitutional (10[2])Court, (10[2]-5[1])making a mathematician (10[2])president (10[3])in (10[1])2025. (10[2])This diaspora includes the author behind “Bronze Age Pervert.” For 10 points, what diaspora emigrates from countries led by Nicușor Dan and (10[1])Maia Sandu? ■END■ (10[5]0[2])

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