Eike is not only receiving widespread consensus in his city, but his ideas for a renewed valorization of Florence are going around the world: even The Guardian talks about how he wants to change Florence
Another certificate of esteem from abroad for Eike Schmidt’s excellent proposals for changing Florence. He is not yet Mayor, but he is already relaunching Florence in the world. Even the prestigious British newspaper The Guardian talks about how Eike wants to change Florence and make it Magnificent again.
The Guardian on Eike Schmidt
“He said he felt compelled to throw his hat into the ring ‘for a city I love’ after being encouraged to run for mayor by Florentines, who he said stopped him on the street to vent their frustrations on issues such as rising crime, a shortage of affordable housing, graffiti, the perennial problem of over-tourism and fast food stalls.
Pledged to take action against the stands and mini-markets that have proliferated in central Florence, Schmidt, who became an Italian citizen last year, said mass tourism was fueling a ‘total deregulation’ of the city’s food sector.” , The Guardian wrote in its article.
Schmidt: “Spread tourism beyond the centre”
“We really shouldn’t have this concentration of all the tourists just downtown. Even considering a likely growth in numbers, the city should be able to master it, while also spreading the benefits of tourism to other areas. Based on the sentiment on the streets and based on polls, which tell us that this is the first time in many, many decades that any party other than the left has a chance of winning, I’m actually very confident about the possibility of winning.
Florence really has the best set of cards imaginable, we just have to play them,” Eike Schmidt told The Guardian.
Marcheschi: “Relaunch of Florence in the world thanks to Eike Schmidt”
“The relaunch of Florence in the world, thanks to Eike Schmidt, is already happening just a few days after his candidacy. Not only is he receiving a transversal consensus in his city, but his ideas for a renewed valorization of Florence are going around the world, thanks to Eike’s authority reached by the British newspaper The Guardian.
From the vision of a city that, in its entirety, is up to the level of the tourist flow, currently concentrated only in the historic center, to the analysis of the current disastrous deregulation of the food sector, to be rethought while respecting the height of Florence, which today it is reduced to a ‘feed factory’. The issue of security is a priority, which left-wing administrations have laxly underestimated for years.
Eike is offering our city and giving the Florentines an extraordinary opportunity to relaunch in the world, thanks to its international reputation. Florence has the potential to become magnificent again, truly a ‘lighthouse of art and culture’; potentialities which, for too long, have been suffocated and have never been expressed due to a small and closed vision of the PD-branded administrations: ‘Firenzina’, finally, returns to being the magnificent Florence”, stated the Florentine senator and group leader of the Culture commission of Fratelli d’Italia Paolo Marcheschi.
