Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Ilia LAZAROV

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

Order Highest rate first By name

Showing Ilia LAZAROV only. Show every member

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

Ilia LAZAROV’s votes against the line, 20

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
18 Dec 2024	Amendment 13 to paragraph 1, point c Setting up a Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union, and defining its responsibilities, numerical strength and term of office	For	Against	EPP
17 Dec 2024	Amendment 3 to paragraph 27 Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023	Abstained	For	EPP
28 Nov 2024	Amendment 12, adding text after recital H Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments	Against	For	EPP
28 Nov 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Hong Kong, notably the cases of Jimmy Lai and the 45 activists recently convicted under the national security law	Abstained	For	EPP
28 Nov 2024	Amendment 1 to paragraph 1 The increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran	For	Against	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 92 — part 1 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Against	Abstained	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 68, adding text after paragraph 91 — part 1 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Against	For	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 50 to paragraph 89 — part 3 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Abstained	For	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Separate vote on paragraph 88 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Against	For	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 39, adding text after paragraph 79 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Against	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 79 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Against	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 47, adding text after paragraph 76 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Against	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 31, adding text after paragraph 63 — part 1 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Against	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 63 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Abstained	EPP
23 Oct 2024	Separate vote on paragraph 62 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Abstained	For	EPP
10 Oct 2024	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 5 The case of Bülent Mumay in Türkiye	Abstained	Against	EPP
9 Oct 2024	Paragraph 2 — part 2 The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia	Abstained	For	EPP
9 Oct 2024	Amendment 2 to paragraph 1 The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia	Abstained	Against	EPP
9 Oct 2024	Amendment 1 to paragraph 7 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration	Against	Abstained	EPP
17 Jul 2024	Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 8 The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine	Abstained	Against	EPP

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).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
Ilia LAZAROV , EPP · Bulgaria	7.8 %	256	9	8	3	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=257261&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 · Ilia LAZAROV”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=257261&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 · Ilia LAZAROV}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=257261&to=2024-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=257261&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}
}