Transport Minister Danilo
Toninelli, a member of the anti-establishment ruling 5-Star
Movement (M5S), on Tuesday said a decision will soon be made on
the construction of the high-speed rail (TAV) line between Turin
and Lyon after League Deputy Premier and Interior Minister
Matteo Salvini said it should be completed.
"Salvini, with whom I have an excellent relationship, will
also see the cost-benefit analysis on the TAV", said Toninelli,
whose party is against the project.
He added that "we will take a decision in the respect of the
government's contract".
"I will ask Salvini for his calculations, when we meet to
have coffee, because they don't match the real ones", the
minister told the Mattino Cinque program of private channel
Canale 5.
Toninelli also said he was fed up with hearing the M5S
accused of halting construction work: "We don't block any
construction work, the only one we whose cost-benefit we are
analyzing, because we are honest people", is TAV.
The M5S's government partner, the rightwing populist League
party led by Salvini, is in favor of the TAV project going
ahead.
There are strong movements for and against the TAV in
Piedmont.
Turin's M5S-controlled council last year voted to stop the
project pending the cost-benefit analysis, according to the
position of the government's other Deputy Premier and Industry
Minister Luigi Di Maio of the M5S.
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