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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Nikolas FARANTOURIS

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 Nikolas FARANTOURIS only. Show every member

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

Nikolas FARANTOURIS’s votes against the line, 16

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	Amendment 14 to paragraph 1, after point i Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women	Abstained	Against	The Left
19 Dec 2024	Amendment 2 to paragraph 1, after point a Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women	Abstained	Against	The Left
18 Dec 2024	Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Tuvalu	For	Against	The Left
18 Dec 2024	Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Niue	For	Against	The Left
18 Dec 2024	Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Tonga	For	Against	The Left
18 Dec 2024	Amendment 4 to paragraph 4, point 2, paragraph 4 Amendment of Annex VI – Powers and responsibilities of the standing committees	Abstained	For	The Left
28 Nov 2024	Amendment 17 to paragraph 6 Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments	For	Against	The Left
28 Nov 2024	Amendment 15 to paragraph 4 Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments	For	Against	The Left
28 Nov 2024	Amendment 10 to paragraph 2 Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments	Abstained	Against	The Left
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 76, adding text after paragraph 90 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Abstained	For	The Left
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 75, adding text after paragraph 90 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Abstained	For	The Left
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 73, adding text after paragraph 87 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Abstained	For	The Left
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 72, adding text after paragraph 87 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Against	For	The Left
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 733 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sections	Abstained	Against	The Left
9 Oct 2024	Paragraph 22 — part 2 The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia	Abstained	Against	The Left
9 Oct 2024	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 1 The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia	Against	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
Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group , S&D · Greece in The Left for most of the period	5.0 %	322	7	9	0	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=256823&to=2024-12-31
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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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 · Nikolas FARANTOURIS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=256823&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 · Nikolas FARANTOURIS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=256823&to=2024-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=256823&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}
}