| Office: | President of the Regional Council of Occitania |
| Term Start: | 4 January 2016 |
| Office1: | Member of the National Assembly for Haute-Garonne's 8th constituency |
| 1Blankname1: | Substitute |
| 1Namedata1: | Joël Aviragnet (2014–2015) |
| Term Start1: | 18 July 2015 |
| Term End1: | 20 June 2017 |
| Predecessor1: | Joël Aviragnet |
| Successor1: | Joël Aviragnet |
| Term Start2: | 20 June 2012 |
| Term End2: | 3 July 2014 |
| Predecessor2: | Jean-Louis Idiart |
| Successor2: | Joël Aviragnet |
| Parliamentarygroup2: | SRC |
| Office3: | Secretary of State for Trade, Arts and Crafts, Consumption, and Social and Solidarity Economy |
| Term Start3: | 3 June 2014 |
| Term End3: | 17 June 2015 |
| President3: | François Hollande |
| Primeminister3: | Manuel Valls |
| Predecessor3: | Valérie Fourneyron |
| Successor3: | Martine Pinville |
| Office4: | Vice-president of the Regional Council of Midi-Pyrénées |
| Term Start4: | 26 March 2010 |
| Term End4: | 1st September 2012 |
| President4: | Martin Salvy |
| Predecessor4: | Alain Beneteau |
| Successor4: | Viviane Artigalas |
| Office5: | Mayor of Martres-Tolosane |
| Term Start5: | 16 March 2008 |
| Term End5: | 4 July 2014 |
| Predecessor5: | Brigitte Redinger |
| Successor5: | Gilbert Tarraube |
| Birth Place: | Toulouse, France |
| Citizenship: | French |
| Party: | Socialist Party |
| Alma Mater: | Toulouse 1 University Capitole |
| Profession: | Local civil servant |
Carole Delga (pronounced as /fr/; born 19 August 1971) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as the President of the Regional Council of Occitania since 2016.[1] [2]
Delga is considered to be a potential candidate in the 2027 French presidential election.[3]
Delga has been a member of the Socialist Party since 2004.
From 2012 until 2017, Delga was a member of the National Assembly, where she served on the Finance Committee (2012–2014) and the Defence Committee (2015–2017).[4]
In 2014, Delga briefly served as Secretary of State for Trade, Crafts, Consumer and Social Economy and Solidarity under Minister of Finance and Public Accounts Michel Sapin in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls; she replaced Valérie Fourneyron who had resigned for health reasons. In June 2015, she left the government to launch her campaign for regional elections; she was replaced by Martine Pinville.[5]
Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Delta publicly endorsed Manuel Valls as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.[6] Since 2017, she has been part of the party's leadership.[7]
Delga was re-elected in the 2021 French regional elections. Shortly after, she was also elected as president of Régions de France, a group representing the regions of France; it was the first time since 2016 that the association was led by a left-wing personality, and for the first time by a woman.[8]
Ahead of the 2022 presidential election, Delga endorsed Anne Hidalgo as the Socialist Party's candidate.[9] In 2023, she publicly endorsed Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol as candidate to challenge Olivier Faure for the party's leadership.[10]
Delga is a critic of the New Ecological and Social People's Union.[11]
In April 2019, Delga was sentenced by the Nîmes Court of Appeal to a fine of €8,000 and damages to the municipality of Beaucaire, Gard, for "discrimination based on political opinions" and "obstructing the exercise of an economic activity" after having refused to sign a city contract established by the municipality of Beaucaire led by Julien Sanchez, and not having chosen this municipality to host the future general high school built by the region in the Gard.[12]