Jean-Philippe Tanguy

Jean-Philippe Tanguy 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.

Biography

Tanguy was born in 1986 in Boulogne-sur-Mer. His mother is a secretary and his father is an industrial site manager.
He received his Baccalauréat at the Lycée Henri-IV and 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 earning a Master of Public Affairs. He then worked as a specialist in the industrial and energy sectors.

Tanguy joined Debout la France and unsuccessfully contested for the party during the 2015 regional elections in Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie. 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.
He joined the National Rally in 2020 and during the 2022 French presidential election was a deputy campaign manager for Marine Le Pen. For the 2022 French legislative election he contested Somme's 4th constituency and defeated outgoing deputy Jean-Claude Leclabart.
He was re-elected in the early parliamentary elections of 2024 with 57.47% of the vote.