In a video, the Calabrian parliamentarian recounts the clash in the Chamber which cost him expulsion and suspension for 7 days. To those who consider his gesture a fascist gesture he replies: “Everyone sees what they want”
«What does it mean that Fontana (the president of the Chamber of Deputies, ed) have you seen the pictures? So today we must also be careful about how we walk because if we stumble and cross our legs we make an X or we make a historical reference to Julius Caesar’s tenth legion.”
The expulsion of the Northern League parliamentarian from Lamezia Terme Domenico Furgiueleaccused of having made the fascist sign of the Decima (with reference to the X Mas battalion), ended up in the records and also among the disciplinary measures, with Furgiuele suspended for seven days like the other Calabrian Nico Stumpo (Pd), who threw a chair during the saloon interlude.
So the video broadcast last night during Live propaganda, a program by Diego Bianchi broadcast on La7, has, in its own way, a historical and political value. Furgiuele, in two minutes, explains why his expulsion would be unjust. He doesn’t ask for the application of VAR like on a football field, but almost. A step back: at that moment the opposition was singing Hello beautifulsong of the Resistance to Nazi-Fascism that plays in Furgiuele like a provocation. One of the interviewers suggests he redo the scene: “Let’s say I sing Bella ciao right now.” «I do not like it – replies the deputy –, if there are 300 of you I’ll say No with my head, if you’re far away and you can’t see me I’ll give you the gesture I want».
«On X Factor – he says – they made the X to say no, can I do it too? In the provocation he responded with a gesture that could only be provocative: prevaricating gesture and response». Furgiuele shows the gesture for a moment but then stops “because the cameras are filming”. And to those who explain to him that the opposition interpreted it as a political gesture, he replies: «Everyone sees what they want in it». Diego Bianchi in the studio doesn’t say he’s really convinced that on X Factor they do the X to fail the singers, but that’s how it is. Propaganda relaunches and improvises the nostalgic talent show Decima Factorinspired by Furgiuele’s performance, ready to become a meme.
