Salvini-Di Maio duel over trash management continues

(ANSA) - Rome, November 19 - A duel between deputy premiers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio over trash management in the southern region of Campania continued on Monday.
    The spat started last week when Interior Minister and League party leader Salvini proposed the installment of new waste-incinerators in the region, an idea rejected by Labour and Industry Minister and 5-Star Movement (M5S) chief Di Maio.
    Premier Giuseppe Conte, meanwhile, visits the Campania province of Caserta on Monday with seven ministers to pass a plan of action to combat the illegal burning of toxic waste, a big problem in the area, which has been called the 'land of fires'. "This is the first act of a relentless battle that we must win," said Di Maio, who described the incinerator proposal as old fashioned.
    "It's like a talking about telephone boxes that require tokens (for calls)," he added.
    Furthermore, Minister for Southern Italy Barbara Lezzi, an M5S member, said Salvini's suggestion that Campania should follow the lead of the northern region of Lombardy on incinerators was off the mark.
    Lezzi said Lombardy's 13 incinerators "are not a model". But Salvini stood by his position.
    "Lombardy is not turning back," Salvini said.
    "On the contrary, the aim is for other regions to move forward.
    "I don't want a country that turns back".