Di Maio’s meeting with French protest leaders is a serious intrusion – Yellow Vest movement founder
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One of the founders of the Yellow Vest movement has called the meeting between Italy’s deputy Prime Minister, Luigi Di Maio, and other protest leaders a serious intrusion. This comes as the movement showed a common front in the face of police violence, ahead of week 13 of the Saturday protests.
“Politics is not about weakening the image of France, but to create a more fair country,” said Jacline Mouraud, one of the founders of the Yellow vest movement, told AFP.
She said Di Maio’s meeting was a “serious intrusion into the foreign policy of our country”.
The Italian anti-establishment politician met with Christophe Chalencon, another founder of the movement, and candidates on a yellow vest list of candidates for the European parliament elections in May.
Di Maio offered his support to the movement. But Mouraud, who has founded a political party of her own, based on “heart” and “empathy”, said Ingrid Levavasseur, who is leading the list, was not warned of the meeting.
Another leading figure in the movement, Maxime Nicolle, addressed Di Maio on Friday, accusing him of appropriating the yellow vest movement.
“You met some people who have created a political party, but in no case did you meet the leaders of the Yellow vests, because there is no leader,” she said.
