The appointment of a new government is a choice moment to highlight priorities or announce implicitly future reforms. The new government resulting from the election of prsident François Hollande contains a few useful indications as intentions for the future of public service reform. Commentators note that the "reform of the state" is to be joined up with the civil service department (instead of being part of the ministry of finance), and the new drive of the ensemble is to be devoted to decentralisation, i.e. empowerment of local authorities. The end of the apparent link with budget issues is lamented by some, applauded by others, as the new president has promised to abolish the policy of only replacing one official for every two reaching retirement age. The new minister has explained some of the themes for the consultation on possible reforms: distribution of competences between the levels of local government, how to encourage local merging of communes, reviewing the election mode of local councillors.
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