Become the star of the 89 deputies of RN in just 3 weeks. Jean-Philippe Tanguy scored points in the National Rally during the purchasing power bill. This former close friend of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan already sees far.
“He is a brilliant Gaullist, who has a commensurate resume, who is serious,” parliamentarian Sébastien Chenu said last June on BFMTV.
The Dupont-Aignan School
Marine Le Pen’s movement loves this type of profile with a well made head. Coming from the middle class, this native of Boulogne-sur-Mer, graduate of Sciences-Po Paris and ESSEC, fan of televisions, ticks all the boxes. He came to the RN benches less than two years ago, the one who admits “living only for politics” in the columns of the Parisianit also very quickly became indispensable.
It must be said that I was in a good school. After a brief stint at Alstom, she joined Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the head of Debout la France, in the National Assembly in 2012. For almost 8 years, he apprenticed. His boss has a taste for the media and is not averse to vigorous exchanges on the floor.
In 2017, when the deputy decided to accompany Marine Le Pen in the interlude of the presidential elections, Jean-Philippe Tanguy was in the front row and maneuvered behind the scenes to facilitate this rapprochement. In 2020, judging that Debout la France is going “to the wall”, and the appetite probably whetted for a candidacy for Europeans in 2019, the parliamentary assistant joined RN and then found Laurent Jacobelli, a former party comrade, there.
Quickly recovered from Finance Committee failure
In a movement that lacks leaders, he is welcomed with open arms and quickly makes himself indispensable to the point of becoming deputy manager of Marine Le Pen’s presidential campaign. If the election of 89 deputies comes as a surprise, after a slow legislative campaign by the RN, it owes nothing to chance for Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
Invested in the 4th constituency of the Somme where his candidate obtained more than 53% in the second round of the presidential elections, the collaborator of the former Elysée candidate, is elected in a chair with 54% of the votes, surpassing the outgoing Renaissance ( ex-LaRem).
Just entered the National Assembly, the new deputy has great ambitions: to head the prestigious Finance Commission. His boss made this victory a matter of principle, in accordance with the practice in force since 2007 that he wants to pass to the largest opposition group.
But his plan fails before the union of LR and Nupes who, after heated discussions behind closed doors, let the rebel Éric Coquerel win. This result was not to the liking of Jean-Philippe Tanguy who denounced “piracy” at the BFMTV microphone, believing that “the French vote was not respected”.
Sitting behind Marine Le Pen
The bitterness passes however quickly, the young man knows himself a pillar of the group’s device. Delegate president of the 89 deputies, he has the influential Renaud Labaye, general secretary of the group and former campaign manager of Marine Le Pen, as well as Sébastien Chenu, elected in 2017. Now vice president of the National Assembly, the latter has been full of praise for him since his joint campaign during the autonomous past.
The 30-year-old is officially back in the saddle for the examination of the first text of the Covid-19 mandate, sitting just behind Marine Le Pen’s place in the hemicycle. He then spared no effort against article 2 which wants to restore the possibility of a sanitary pass at the borders and between Overseas and the metropolis. With sure success: the oppositions inflict a severe snub on the executive by amputating the text of this provision.
But it is on the very emblematic text of purchasing power, in the midst of record inflation, that the parliamentarian explodes.
“Silence for France” under taunts
Passes d’armes with the rebels whom he accuses in particular of being “King Macron’s buffoons”, a reminder of the rules against the rapporteur Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq whom he accuses of “incompetence”… We do not see (almost ) than him during these 4 days of debate thanks to a well-rehearsed strategy. The chosen one bombards social networks with photos and calibrates his interventions so that they make more clicks on the networks.
Sometimes at the risk of exaggeration, like the last time you spoke on the podium to explain your group’s support for this text. Booed by the deputies of Nupes, Jean-Philippe Tanguy suddenly writes: “silence”. Picked up by the president of the session, he then shouts, with clenched fists:
“Oh, this cry from the heart! This cry from the heart that, I think, inspired many people among us”, before shouting “silence for France”, to the laughter of his opponents but also his own camp.
The parliamentarian had already tripped over the rug on July 12 by evoking “the homoerotic aspirations” that Emmanuel Macron would have requested, when he was a banker at Rothschild, before finally backing down.
“When you’re ambitious, sometimes you go a little bit beyond the frame. But I have no doubt that Marine Le Pen knows how to reframe it if it goes too far,” snaps a party executive with BFMTV.com.
Here is the ambitious young man warned.
Source: BFM TV
