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Backed by Giorgia Meloni’s party, Eike Schmidt says cracking down on burger stands, crime and overtourism will help restore status
The former director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence has promised a crackdown on crime and burger stands in his quest to restore the Tuscan capital to is former status as a cultural “beacon of the world”.
German-born Eike Schmidt, 55, is standing in the city’s mayoral election on a civic list backed by the prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy and its ruling coalition partners, in an unusual collaboration that has raised a few eyebrows in the world of art and politics.
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