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Former Uffizi chief Eike Schmidt enters race to become mayor of Florence

Eike Schmidt, the former director of the Uffizi galleries in Florence, has announced he is running to be the city’s mayor, ending months of speculation about his political ambitions. Schmidt will compete in the municipal June election as part of a right-wing alliance comprising prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, Forza Italia and the […]

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