[5][6] The family of her father (Roberto[7]) originated from the hamlet of Vaglie in the comune of Ligonchio and she is a distant cousin through her paternal grandfather of the singer Iva Zanicchi.

[8][9][10] Francesco Ceccardi, brother of her paternal grandfather, died in the hamlet of Busana on the Apennine Mountains, killed by the army of the Italian Social Republic in January 1945 and is locally honored by a way-side cross with a plaque.

[13] At the time her victory interrupted 70 years of left-wing local leadership,[20][4][21] and Cascina became the first large municipality won by Lega Nord Toscana in the region and the second in general after Bagni di Lucca in the 1990s.

[24] The result was not considered local[notes 1] and was seen as a key example of the political shift fuelled by the topic of immigration, which later occurred at the 2018 Italian general election.

[6] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she organized with party colleagues Gian Marco Centinaio (former minister of agriculture) and Gianna Gambaccini (a doctor and local assessore in Pisa) a "rescue expedition" traveling by bus from Italy to Barcelona where they collected 46 Italian citizens (mostly from Tuscany[32]).

[44] She has been described as an example of younger Italian politicians supporting a more critical view of the European Union especially compared with the older right-wing officeholders of the previous decades.

[23] She opposes the construction of mosques and, in exchange for the celebration of the Eid al-Fitr in a public space by the local Senegalese community, she required that they "firmly condemned" all acts of violence induced by Islamic fundamentalism.

[46] Ceccardi consider that "regulating immigration is a moderate position"[20] In April 2019, during Liberation Day, she expressed her critical views about the less debated aspects of the Italian resistance movement.