The theme of “dismissal of civil servants” or the elimination of job security in the public service has come back into fashion. The subject deserves to be explored in depth, in the light of facts and not ideology.
One of the fundamental principles of French society, with constitutional value, affirms the responsibility of the civil servant. The latter is not untouchable, his failings, his mistakes are punishable, including dismissal. The civil service code, resulting in particular from the laws of 1946 and 1983, does not say anything else. Its article L. 533-1 provides for revocation for… The French Prime Minister Stanislas Guerini wants to “lift the taboo of dismissal” in thepublic service. He feigns ignorance that political power has all the necessary tools to sanction civil servants in the event of negligence, analyzes essayist and historian *. Maxime Tandonnet notably published André Tardieu’s L’incompris (Perrin, 2019)