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“Debureaucratize at all levels” : the newly appointed Minister of Civil Service, and of the Simplification and Transformation of Public Action, Guillaume Kasbarian, made a thunderous introduction on Monday, instantly arousing the mistrust of the unions. “We must free the French from the burden of administrative procedures”mentioned the previous Minister of Housing in Paris, on the event of the handover ceremony along with his predecessor, Stanislas Guerini.

Guillaume Kasbarian took up Article 15 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, in accordance with which “society has the right to demand an account from any public agent of his administration.” This selection is to not the style of Mylène Jacquot, normal secretary of CFDT-Public Services: “We cannot oppose users” to the 5.7 million public sector workers, she argued.

There “simplification (…) must never be to the detriment of the quality of public service”harassed Guillaume Kasbarian, assuring that he had set himself the target of “make life easier for the French and public officials”In a press launch revealed on Sunday, the Solidaires-Fonction publique union, the sixth largest civil servants' union, expressed concern concerning the addition of the phrase “simplification” to the title of the ministry: “Everyone knows that the term corresponds to the desire to reduce the number of civil servants and to degrade the quality of public service.”

The minister additionally welcomed the reform on Monday. “ambitious” of the civil service ready by his predecessor, with out specifying the destiny he would reserve for it. Frozen by the dissolution of the Assembly, this invoice, a lot criticized by the unions, deliberate to extend merit-based pay, facilitate dismissals and even eradicate the historic system of classes (A, B and C) of the civil service.