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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Pernando BARRENA ARZA

Which members voted against their group’s clear line, how often compared with the votes where the group had one, and did they vote with their national party when they did?

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Period Term 2024 2025 2026 Last 6 months

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Votes Final votes66 All roll calls516

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Showing Pernando BARRENA ARZA only. Show every member

Group Country Lead committee Topic (model-assigned) Contested votes only (largest side under 80 %)

Pernando BARRENA ARZA’s votes against the line, 26

Every vote in the selection where the member’s position differed from their group’s clear line, newest first.

**Position**: the member’s vote. **Clear line**: the position of at least two thirds of **Group** (at least 10 members voting), the group they sat in on that day.
Date	Vote	Position	Clear line	Group
19 Dec 2024	Final vote on the motion for a resolution 11th year of the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation and the deteriorating human rights situation in occupied Crimea, notably the cases of Iryna Danylovych, Tofik Abdulhaziiev and Amet Suleymanov	Abstained	For	The Left
17 Dec 2024	Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 12 Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023	Against	For	The Left
17 Dec 2024	Final vote Specific measures under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) for Member States affected by natural disasters	Against	For	The Left
28 Nov 2024	Paragraph 19 — part 2 Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia	Abstained	Against	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 1, adding text after recital K Genetically modified maize DP202216	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 2 Genetically modified maize DP202216	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 1, adding text after recital K Genetically modified maize DP23211	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 1, adding text after recital L Genetically modified maize DP915635	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 2 Genetically modified maize DP23211	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 2 Genetically modified maize DP915635	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 1, adding text after recital O Genetically modified maize MON 89034 × 1507 × MON 88017 × 59122 and eight of its sub-combinations	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 2 Genetically modified maize MON 89034 × 1507 × MON 88017 × 59122 and eight of its sub-combinations	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2024	Amendment 1, adding text after recital O Genetically modified maize MON 89034 × 1507 × NK603	Against	For	The Left
14 Nov 2024	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 131 — part 1 UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29)	For	Against	The Left
24 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan	Abstained	Against	The Left
24 Oct 2024	Paragraph 6 — part 1 People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan	Abstained	For	The Left
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 50 to paragraph 89 — part 2 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Against	The Left
22 Oct 2024	Final vote Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine	Abstained	For	The Left
9 Oct 2024	Separate vote on recital C Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration	Abstained	For	The Left
9 Oct 2024	Amendment 2 to paragraph 11 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration	Against	Abstained	The Left
9 Oct 2024	Separate vote on paragraph 5 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration	Abstained	For	The Left
19 Sept 2024	Amendment 4 to paragraph 11 Situation in Venezuela	Against	Abstained	The Left
19 Sept 2024	Amendment 11 to recital P Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States	Abstained	For	The Left
19 Sept 2024	Amendment 4 to paragraph 6 The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in Cuba	Abstained	For	The Left
19 Sept 2024	Final vote — text as a whole The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus	Abstained	For	The Left
17 Jul 2024	Paragraph 4 — part 2 The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine	Abstained	For	The Left

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Members with at least one vote where their group had a clear line. Order: by rate, for members with at least 300 clear-line votes (the rest follow by name) — not a ranking.

**Against the line**: votes against the group’s clear line ÷ **clear-line votes** (votes where the member’s group at the date had a clear line and the member voted); a count below 50. Of the votes against: **opposite** (for ↔ against), **abstained** against the line, **other** (for or against when the line was to abstain), and **with own party** — with the majority of their national party’s members in the group (at least two voting).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
Pernando BARRENA ARZA , The Left · Spain	5.8 %	448	13	11	2	0

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

516 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
15 of 81 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
A vote counts against the group’s line when the group’s clear line — at least two thirds of its votes cast, with at least 10 members voting — was different from the member’s position; a divided group has no line to vote against (method). This is a different rule from group loyalty, which uses the majority line (loyalty).
Ordered by rate, only members with at least 300 votes where their group had a clear line are compared; fewer votes make a rate unstable, and below 50 the figure is shown as a count.
Each member is counted in the group they belonged to on the day of the vote (group at the date).
Roll calls are not a random sample: final votes on laws are recorded by name, most other roll calls because a group asked for it. A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes; the Parliament publishes no whip.
Methods: Voted against the group’s clear line v1, Voted with the group’s majority line v1, Final votes and all roll calls v1, Group at the date of the vote v1.
Data as of 29 Sept 2026, 03:29 UTC (data stamp 2b7a29b98b0d, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=197684&to=2024-12-31
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1 · methods
Retrieved: 29 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Pernando BARRENA ARZA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=197684&to=2024-12-31 (retrieved 29 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1.

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@misc{epw-analysis-2026-09-29,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Pernando BARRENA ARZA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=197684&to=2024-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=197684&to=2024-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-29},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1}
}