Salvini's TAV calculations wrong says Toninelli

(ANSA) - Rome, January 29 - 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.