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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Pascal ARIMONT

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 Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes66All roll calls516
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Pascal ARIMONT only. Show every member

Pascal ARIMONT’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.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
19 Dec 2024Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Amending Directive 2009/38/EC as regards the establishment and functioning of European Works Councils and the effective enforcement of transnational information and consultation rightsAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2024Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 19 Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2024Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 13 Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2024Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 13 Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2024Amendment 5 to paragraph 13 Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2024Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 12 Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023ForAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2024Amendment 4 to paragraph 12 Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023AbstainedAgainstEPP
14 Nov 2024Paragraph 72 — part 2 UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29)AbstainedAgainstEPP
14 Nov 2024Paragraph 66 — part 2 UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29)AbstainedAgainstEPP
14 Nov 2024Amendment 11 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of applicationAbstainedForEPP
14 Nov 2024Amendment 10 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of applicationAbstainedForEPP
14 Nov 2024Amendment 9 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of applicationAbstainedForEPP
14 Nov 2024Amendment 7 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of applicationAbstainedForEPP
14 Nov 2024Amendment 6 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of applicationAbstainedForEPP
14 Nov 2024Amendment 5 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of applicationAbstainedForEPP
14 Nov 2024Amendment 3 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of applicationAbstainedForEPP
24 Oct 2024Amendment 2 to paragraph 10 Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with ArmeniaAbstainedAgainstEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 46, adding text after paragraph 64 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 32, adding text after paragraph 64 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 45, adding text after paragraph 63 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 63 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstAbstainedEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 29, adding text after paragraph 62 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstAbstainedEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 27, adding text after paragraph 57 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 26, adding text after paragraph 56 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForEPP
19 Sept 2024Amendment 5, adding text after recital J The devastating floods in central and eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate changeForAgainstEPP
19 Sept 2024Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 6 The severe situation of political prisoners in BelarusAbstainedForEPP

By member, 1

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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Pascal ARIMONT , EPP · Belgium 6.0 %43642020

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 28 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp 5a7357168c2a, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=24922&to=2024-12-31
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data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Pascal ARIMONT”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=24922&to=2024-12-31 (retrieved 29 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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 · Pascal ARIMONT}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=24922&to=2024-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=24922&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 5a7357168c2a (28 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}
}