Eike Schmidt he is officially the center-right candidate for mayor of Florence. This was announced by Schmidt himself, who after leading the Uffizi in Florence is now director of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, convening the press this morning in Piazza della Signoria, right under Palazzo Vecchio. “I officially dissolve the reservation and am running for mayor of Florence – he said -. Today I will ask the centre-right parties to support this electoral campaign”.
Eike Schmidt as candidate for mayor of Florence “is a quality choice”, said Maurizio Gasparri, a senator from Forza Italia, at an electoral initiative in Florence. “In Tuscany the centre-right is able to compete and win everywhere, the events of recent years have demonstrated this”, he added, recalling that “the centre-right is looking to the regional elections next year and therefore the elections in Livorno, Prato, Florence can anticipate a turnover that we hope for.” Schmidt, according to Gasparri, has in himself “a quality of Florentine nature, due to the long experience gained in this city; Italian, due to the citizenship of which he is proud; but I would also say that it has European caliber in one of the world capitals of culture which it is Florence, a great Italian city that belongs to the world for its fame, its beauty, and the art it expresses of which Schmidt was a guardian and also an enhancer, within the framework of the long history of Florence”. Gasparri spoke about it, recalling Schmidt’s long experience as director of the Uffizi Gallery.
“Among the first things I will do will be to ask for leave” as director of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, “I do it well before the 45 days as required by law – said Schmidt -. There will be some days, technical times, for having been granted it by the ministry in Rome and from mid-month I will be 100% on the field in Florence. The law is the same for everyone. As you know there is a university professor from Florence, Giuseppe Conte, who is now in leave of absence for six years for political activity. So it also applies to managers.” “I therefore expect that – he added – and I hope that others too, such as the rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena” Tomaso Montanari, “and the welfare councilor of Florence” Sara Funaro, “who are now already in the midst of the electoral campaign, even if in the case of the rector it is not clear whether he will run or not but he is still engaging in political activity, they should put themselves on leave. Because this is right.”
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2024-04-06 11:41:00
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