| Philippe Séguin | |
| Office: | First President of the Court of Audit |
| Term Start: | 21 July 2004 |
| Term End: | 7 January 2010 |
| Predecessor: | François Logerot |
| Successor: | Didier Migaud |
| Office2: | President of the National Assembly |
| Term Start2: | 2 April 1993 |
| Term End2: | 12 June 1997 |
| Predecessor2: | Henri Emmanuelli |
| Successor2: | Laurent Fabius |
| Office3: | President of Rally for the Republic |
| Term Start3: | 1997 |
| Term End3: | 1999 |
| Predecessor3: | Alain Juppé |
| Successor3: | Nicolas Sarkozy (Acting) |
| Office4: | Minister for Social Affairs and Employment |
| Term Start4: | 20 March 1986 |
| Term End4: | 12 May 1988 |
| Primeminister4: | Jacques Chirac |
| Predecessor4: | Georgina Dufoix |
| Successor4: | Michel Delebarre |
| Office5: | Member of the National Assembly for Vosges's 1st constituency |
| Term Start5: | 19 March 1978 |
| Term End5: | 1 April 1986 |
| Term Start6: | 12 June 1988 |
| Term End6: | 18 June 2002 |
| Office7: | Mayor of Épinal |
| Term Start7: | 18 March 1983 |
| Term End7: | 9 November 1997 |
| Predecessor7: | Pierre Blanck |
| Successor7: | Michel Heinrich |
| Birth Date: | 21 April 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Tunis, Tunisia |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Alma Mater: | Sciences Po Aix, ÉNA |
| Party: | Union for the New Republic (1958–1968) Union of Democrats for the Republic (1968–1976) Rally for the Republic (1976–1999) |
Philippe Séguin (21 April 1943 – 7 January 2010) was a French political figure who was President of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997 and President of the Cour des Comptes of France from 2004 to 2010.
He entered the Court of Financial Auditors in 1970, but he began a political career in the Neo-Gaullist party RPR. In 1978, he was elected to the National Assembly as a deputy for the Vosges département. He was Mayor of Épinal between 1983 and 1997.
Representing the social tradition of the Gaullism, he was Minister of Social Affairs in Jacques Chirac's cabinet, from 1986 to 1988.After Chirac's defeat at the 1988 presidential election, he allied with Charles Pasqua and criticized the abandonment of Gaullist doctrine by the RPR executive. He accused Alain Juppé and Édouard Balladur of wanting an alignment on liberal and pro-European policies.
In 1992, he played a leading role in the No campaign against the Maastricht Treaty. On the eve of the vote he opposed President François Mitterrand in a televised debate.
As president of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997, he supported the winning candidacy of Jacques Chirac at the 1995 presidential election. He inspired the theme of Chirac's campaign which was named "the social fracture".
Their relations deteriorated when he took the lead of the RPR, after the right-wing defeat at the 1997 legislative election. He failed to change the name of the party to "The Rally". He criticized the ascendancy of President Chirac within the party, refusing to be the leader of a "Chirac's fan-club". He resigned in 1999 just before the European elections, leaving his deputy Nicolas Sarkozy in charge.
As the RPR's official candidate, he lost the 2001 mayoral election in Paris. Refusing the merger of the Neo-Gaullist party with the right-wing classical forces in the Union for a Popular Movement, he quit politics in 2002.
He died at the age of 66 on 7 January 2010 from a heart attack.[1]
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