For the Meloni Alliance: German museum director wants to replace left-wing government in Florence. The 56-year-old is running for the center-right camp of Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Schmidt described himself as an “Aristotelian centrist”, a “democrat’ and an ‘anti-fascist’ The leader of the post-fascist Fratelli d' Italia, who describes herself as "Prime Minister" and "Man of the Year", will go on trial in July.