Jean-Philippe Tanguy

Jean-Philippe Tanguy
Member of the National Assembly
for Somme's 4th constituency
Assumed office
22 June 2022
Preceded byJean-Claude Leclabart
Personal details
Born (1986-03-25) 25 March 1986 (age 38)
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Political partyNational Rally (2020–present)
Other political
affiliations
Debout la France (2012–2020)
Alma materESSEC Business School
Sciences Po

Jean-Philippe Tanguy (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ filip tɑ̃ɡi]; born 25 March 1986) is a French politician who has represented the 4th constituency of the Somme department in the National Assembly since 2022. He is a member of the National Rally (RN).

Biography[edit]

Early life and education[edit]

Tanguy was born in 1986 in Boulogne-sur-Mer.[1] His mother is a secretary and his father is an industrial site manager.[2]

He began studies at the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr military academy but dropped out and studied degrees at ESSEC Business School and Sciences Po in Paris.[3] He then worked as a specialist in the industrial and energy sectors.[1]

Political career[edit]

Tanguy joined Debout la France and unsuccessfully contested for the party during the 2015 regional elections in Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie.[3] He worked on Nicolas Dupont-Aignan's campaign during the 2017 French presidential election and according to Mediapart tried to forge an alliance between Dupont-Aignan and Marine Le Pen.[4]

He joined the National Rally in 2020 and during the 2022 French presidential election was a deputy campaign manager for Marine Le Pen.[5] For the 2022 French legislative election he contested Somme's 4th constituency and defeated outgoing deputy Jean-Claude Leclabart.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Jean-Philippe Tanguy". lepoint.fr. Archived from the original on 22 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022..
  2. ^ "Jean-Philippe Tanguy". huffingtonpost.fr. Archived from the original on 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2022-07-01..
  3. ^ a b "Régionales : qui sont les quatre "petits candidats" en Nord Pas-de-Calais / Picardie ?". France 3 Hauts-de-France (in French). 2015-12-04. Archived from the original on 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  4. ^ Delaporte, Lucie (2022-06-22). "Proches de Marine Le Pen, élus locaux, novices... Les nouveaux visages du RN à l'Assemblée nationale". Mediapart (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  5. ^ Robin D'Angelo (31 March 2022). "Présidentielle : Jean-Philippe Tanguy, l'adjoint de la campagne de Marine Le Pen". lejdd.fr. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Législatives dans la Somme : le RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy devient député de la 4e circonscription". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). 2022-06-19. Archived from the original on 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2022-06-20.