In the colloquial register, we would call this a little push. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, brought together, Wednesday, May 17, in Paris and by videoconference, the highest executives of the State to ask them to shake themselves up and be inventive. A Matignon adviser specified shortly before that Mme Borne would require prefects, rectors or directors of central administration to “get out of the shackles, heaviness”, “to innovate, to experiment”of “show initiatives to derogate from national rules”. Cruel, he specified: “It’s easy to hide behind the norm. »
On Wednesday morning, in fact, the head of government said she wanted “build a more efficient pilot state”. So, she launched to the executives, the central administrations must leave “leeway” field services, which must seize it. “Adapting, trying, testing, innovating is actually the best way to produce equality”ured M.me Thick headed.
Repeatedly affirming “to trust” in senior civil servants, she tried to reure them to encourage them to “move”: “Whether we try, we try, we invent new ways of working, there is a corollary: sometimes we fail. » But, she admitted, “In our administrative culture, we don’t like failure very much. It is often perceived as a fault, and the fault could weigh on a course. » She added: “You too have the right to make mistakes. »
A Clarification for Ministers
The development, confided Matignon, did not spare the ministers. Elisabeth Borne asks them to really direct their administration, to “to restore managerial intensity in the way of leading this group of executives” And “to do more pedagogy so that [ceux-ci] understand the objectives of the government”. She wishes, a well-known antiphon in Macronie, “more fluid relationships” between ministerial cabinets and their administrations.
Because the Prime Minister, weakened since the pension reform and eager to focus on the daily problems of the French, wants results “quick, visible, perceptible”as she explained to senior officials on Wednesday morning. “From the next few months, the French must feel the changes and concrete improvements. »
The government’s roadmap was presented at the end of April: full employment, reindustrialisation, ecological transition, republican order. Not to mention better quality public services. On this point, “the expectations of the French are immense”recalled M.me Thick headed.
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