We will certainly remember a Sunday like that of July 11 for a long time. The unexpected coincidence between the final of the European football championships – with the Italian national team facing the hosts of England in the legendary Wembley stadium – and that of the highly acclaimed tournament Wimbledon tennis, where for the first time in history an Italian takes the field, Matthew Berrettini, against reigning champion and world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, it wasn't even in the brightest predictions. But in order not to miss anything, even politics is awaited by an appointment that will not be historic but which is certainly as important as the assembly of parliamentarians of the Five Stars with the four pentastellati ministers on the controversial justice reform. Reform unanimously approved by the last Council of Ministers but contested by the grillina base which found its spokesman in the former premier Giuseppe Conte against the political realism of Beppe Grillo and Luigi Di Maio who supported the reform of Draghi and Cartabia, repeatedly requested by the European Union as a condition to grant us the money from the Recovery Plan.
Wembley final with Mancini's Italy, that in the evening the title of European champion is played after a painful but exciting tournament, is certainly the highlight of Sunday, as the exceptional presence in the football temple of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, testifies. An Italian victory would go far beyond mere sporting significance and would be a healthy injection of confidence for a country that has been heavily attacked in terms of health and economy by the pandemic but which, above all thanks to the Draghi government, has reacted with pride, to the point that for 2021 GDP growth of over 5% is expected, the likes of which has not happened since the economic boom of the late 50s.
But also a success of Berrettini at the Wimbledon tennis tournament, as unexpected as the performance of our national football team, would have an emblematic value of the desire for revenge that animates our whole country, not only in sport.
In the afternoon, precisely in conjunction with the Wimbledon final and before the football final, the assembly of parliamentarians of the Five Stars will also be held who intend to contest thethe Cartabia reform on justice and above all the disavowal of the previous one Bonafede reform endorsed by the grillini ministers, Di Maio in the lead. Faced with the risk of the Government falling, the Grillini ministers will explain that theirs was an inevitable test of political realism and that for this reason they supported the provision of the Minister of Justice, openly supported by Prime Minister Mario Draghi who even threatened to resign if the reform had not passed in the Council of Ministers. But it is said that they will be able to convince one unruly parliamentary base, incited by former Prime Minister Conte, but certainly not willing to risk early elections which, with the blank semester starting in August, will become impossible by law. It is useless to deny, however, that this afternoon's event is a decisive turn of the history of the Five Stars, which may also have an impact on the state of health of the Government, and which represents a crucial round in the white-hot challenge between Beppe Grillo, who defends the reform and the Draghi government, and the former prime minister Giuseppe Conte who , if defeated, could take the way of splitting.
That's why say this is a Sunday at gun cotton – both for sports and for politics – that's really not an exaggeration.
