Guy Teissier (born 4 April 1945) is a French politician who served as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône department from 1993 until 2022, previously briefly holding the position in 1988.
[1] He has been a member of The Republicans (LR) since the party was established in 2015 as the successor to the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
[3] Born in the Saint-Antoine quarter of Marseille (15th arrondissement), he became a notary clerk and then a property administrator.
[4] At the outset of his political career, Teissier was a member of the "extreme right-wing group” of the Nationalist Union.
In the latter party he served as Deputy Secretary General and was in charge of security and defense issues.
He was re-elected in 2002 with 76% of the votes cast, the highest percentage received in that year's election by any candidate for the National Assembly.
On April 7, 2014, he was elected president of the MPM with 90 votes, out of a total of 137, succeeding Eugène Caselli (PS) in this post.
In 2008, Guy Teissier was elected chairman of the board of directors of the Euro-Mediterranean Public Planning Institution, a large urban-renewal project in central Marseille.
He was named a Knight of the National Order of Merit in 1983, is an honorary colonel, and has also won the René Cassin medal.