Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio | Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images Italy’s Di Maio urges Yellow Jackets to not give up Italy has been following protestors’ ‘battle from the day you first appeared,’ writes 5Star Movement leader.

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio told Yellow Jacket protesters in France to "not give up," and said Italy has been following their "battle from the day you first appeared."

The Yellow Jackets movement started in November in protest against rising fuel prices and a planned fuel tax, which the French government has since abandoned, and has spread to other countries, including Belgium.

Writing in a blog posted on the website of the 5Star Movement on Monday, Di Maio said that in both France and Italy "politics has become deaf to the needs of citizens who have been kept out of the most important decisions affecting the people."

He added that "the cry that rises strongly from the French squares is ultimately one of 'let us participate!'"

He urged the protestors to continue, noting that the 5Star Movement entered the Italian parliament less than four years after its birth, "despite the insults and sneers," adding that "those who teased us [in the past have] today disappeared from the political scene."

Di Maio also offered his party's support if needed, offering the protestors "to use some of the functions of our software, for instance calls for actions to organise meetings or voting system to ... pick candidates for elections."

In Francia, come in Italia, la politica è diventata sorda alle esigenze dei cittadini, tenuti fuori dalle decisioni più importanti che riguardano il popolo. Il grido che si alza forte dalle piazze francesi è uno: “fateci partecipare!”. https://t.co/cBJvUwEk5s — Luigi Di Maio (@luigidimaio) January 7, 2019