Carole Delga celebrates November 11 in Ariège: “The first thing people talk to me about is the question of employment and access to doctors”

The Occitanie region is large and if its president makes it a duty not to forget any of its territories, she has never before come to celebrate November 11 in Ariège despite her Couseran roots. This is now done since Carole Delga was this Monday in Castillon-en-Couserans, where she participated in the tribute paid to the men and women who fell in all the wars that France has known.

“We had talked about it with Patrick (Timbart, the mayor of Castillon-en-Couserans, Editor's note), so I came after having gone for a hike in the Bellongue valley yesterday, explains Carole Delga. It allows me to see people, to telling them that I haven't forgotten them is also my way of showing my attachment to Ariège, Couserans and the mountains.” And to show with a smile the blue wool jacket she is wearing that day: “This jacket was my aunt, a seamstress in Saint-Girons, who made it for me 35 years ago. She 88 years old, when she sees the photo, she will be moved.”

From Castillon-en-Couserans to Augirein, I wanted to pay tribute to the memory of all those who fell for the freedom of the ?? and the#Europe.
In this #11November let us tirelessly transmit to our youth the values ​​of peace, unity and reconciliation. pic.twitter.com/lZTdjGlMZA

— Carole Delga (@CaroleDelga)

Soon one more doctor for Ariège

After the anecdote, this ceremony was an opportunity for the President of the Region to interact with the hundred or so residents who came to attend the ceremony and the traditional friendly drink that follows it. And the subjects, she notes, are always the same: “The first thing people talk to me about is the question of employment and access to doctors,” emphasizes Carole Delga. Hence the opening of the Cabannes health center on November 4, and we are already working on an additional doctor contract for Ariège.”

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Others could also follow in the near future, without any timetable being able to be announced yet. “As long as I don't have doctors, I can't do anything, sighs the elected official. It's not so much the question of bringing them to Ariège, they agree, but quite simply of finding them. “

“The economic signals are worrying, we will have to make choices”

On the employment side, caution is required. “I am working so that France has energy and industrial sovereignty, and there was an industrial tradition in Ariège that must be developed. But the economic signals are worrying. I will support employment, businesses, work on power purchasing, but there will be intervention reductions The cheapest back to school in France, I'm not going to touch it, the support for VSEs/SMEs either, the one euro train for students, that. will continue. But we will have to make choices. : the Region's budget will drop by 145 million euros, that's a third less self-financing and that's huge.”

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There remains the agricultural question, central in Ariège. “No one talks to me about it too much, less than about employment,” notes Carole Delga, “but I am very concerned. This morning I visited a cheese factory in Augirein and the first thing they talked to me about was is FCO (bluetongue, Editor's note) and MHE (epizootic haemorrhagic disease). Of course, the Region will help breeders to rebuild their herds, and we. We will hold the first territorial committee for regional agricultural aid in Ariège on Wednesday (November 13, Editor's note) in Foix.”

A mother asks for a photo with her children, an association president approaches her to talk about subsidies, elected officials and officials crowd around. “Whether it’s in Gers, Lot or Ariège, people talk to me about the same thing. We’re going to have to make efforts,” repeats Carole Delga before turning to a new interlocutor.