The socialist president of the Occitanie region is one of the voices that count on the left. This week, she decided to give her support to the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure.
Very present in the media recently, the PS president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga is an outsider on the left in the race for Matignon. The latter has never really positioned herself for the position if it were to be offered to her. “It is not for sale” she even declared in May 2022 on RTL, affirming that she would refuse to be a minister in the Borne government if it were offered to her. The cause? Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform project, “I do not approve of it” she explained. Have times changed in two years?
President of the Regions of France since 2021
Mayor of Martres-Tolosane (Haute-Garonne) from 2008 to 2014, vice-president of the Midi-Pyrénées regional council for two years, then Secretary of State for Trade, Crafts, Consumer Affairs and the Social and Solidarity Economy in the Valls I and II governments, it was in 2015 that Carole Delga was elected as MP for the 8th constituency of Haute-Garonne. A two-year term that would lead her to her current position as president of the Occitanie Regional Council. In office for over 8 years, Carole Delga is also president of the Regions of France since July 9, 2021, she succeeds Renaud Muselier.
Carole Delga gives her support to Olivier Faure (PS)
Carole Delga undoubtedly has experience in the field. On the other hand, there is no trace of a candidacy for Matignon. The president of the Occitanie region has recently made more of an effort to support a profile that does not make waves on the left, that of the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure: “It is logical that when we have to build a majority coalition, it is the central party that proposes the Prime Minister. The coalition will be built around the socialists” she affirmed this Wednesday, July 10, 2024 on TF1. Conversely, for her, the possibility of a right-wing Prime Minister appears to be a utopia, the proposals of Edouard Philippe “are unrealistic like those of certain rebels who say “we are going to apply the NFP program” (…) we need to broaden our base to have a majority” she explains.
“Communist, environmentalist and rebel allies” are not excluded
In an interview with Le Point, Carole Delga considered the question surrounding her potential candidacy for Matignon as “premature” on June 14. “But I say it again: it will not be Jean-Luc Mélenchon. With his comments on Gaza, on anti-Semitism, he has totally discredited himself,” she judges. Still in a logic of electoral dynamics and collective, she considers the vote of the French as a “message sent”, the latter would like “a government with a left-wing majority”, but this “majority, it is not decreed, it is built” she indicates to the AFP.
Ideally, Carole Delga imagines a left-wing bloc with “communist and environmentalist allies, the Insoumis who are in a positive logic, a logic of construction and also a part of Renaissance” she confides to AFP. “Several socialists and also other elected officials from the left who are realistic” could in fact be part of it. In short, “we must know how to surpass ourselves” she says. While “France is on the brink of the precipice”, she emphasizes “intangible points” in this new government and concerning its program: “the repeal of the pension reform” and “investment in public services” will be part of it and will even be two of the pillars of the potential new adventure of the left.