Guy Teissier

Guy Teissier, born on 4 April 1945 in the Saint-Antoine quarter of Marseille, is a French politician who sat in the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department from 1993 until 2022, after briefly holding the seat in 1988 before the election was annulled. He trained as a notary clerk and property administrator, began on the far right in the Nationalist Union and the New Forces Party, joined the Republican Party in 1978, then the Liberal Democracy Party under Alain Madelin, then the Union for a Popular Movement, and has belonged to The Republicans since 2015. He was mayor of the 5th sector of Marseille from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 2014, president of the National Assembly Defence Committee, president of the Parliamentary Intelligence Delegation from 2008, and president of the Marseille Provence conurbation from 2014. He did not stand again in 2022.