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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Villy SØVNDAL

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 votes293All roll calls2 891
Order Highest rate firstBy name

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Villy SØVNDAL’s votes against the line, 52

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
18 Dec 2025Separate vote on recital H Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against LithuaniaForAgainstGreens
18 Dec 2025Paragraph 7 — part 2 Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against LithuaniaForAgainstGreens
17 Dec 2025Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union levelAbstainedAgainstGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 81 to recital 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 18 to recital 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 52 to recital 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 67 to Article 14 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 66 to Article 14 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendments 64 + 88 (voted as one), adding text after Article 12 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 38, adding text after Article 12 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendments 37 + 46 (voted as one) to Article 11 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendments 36 + 87 (voted as one) to Article 11 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendments 34 + 86 (voted as one) to Article 9 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 85 to Article 9 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 33 to Article 7 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 84 to Article 6 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 61 to Article 6 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 60 to Article 6 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 30 to Article 6 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 29 to Article 5 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 28 to Article 5 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 26 to Article 3 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 83 to Article 3 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAbstainedForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 24 to Article 3 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 22 to Article 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendments 21 + 82 (voted as one) to Article 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 20 to Article 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 19 to Article 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
27 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 4 EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for UkraineAgainstForGreens
26 Nov 2025Paragraph 17 — part 1 Protection of minors onlineForAgainstGreens
25 Nov 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimesAbstainedAgainstGreens
13 Nov 2025Amendments 50 + 138 (voted as one) to Article 2 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForGreens
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 29 EU political strategy on Latin AmericaForAgainstGreens
8 Oct 2025Amendment 121, adding text after recital 3 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAbstainedForGreens
7 Oct 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Revision of the Visa Suspension MechanismForAgainstGreens
10 Sept 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of VanuatuForAgainstGreens
9 Sept 2025Amendment 39, adding text after recital R Public procurementAbstainedAgainstGreens
9 Sept 2025Amendment 19, adding text after paragraph 67 Public procurementAbstainedForGreens
18 Jun 2025Amendment 8 to paragraph 9 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaForAgainstGreens
22 May 2025Amendment 5, adding text after recital 11 Granting equivalence to Moldova and Ukraine for field inspections and seed productionForAgainstGreens
8 May 2025Amendment 6, adding text after recital E Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal marketAgainstForGreens
7 May 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 11 — part 2 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European UnionAbstainedAgainstGreens
7 May 2025Amendment 27, adding text after paragraph 143 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsForAbstainedGreens
3 Apr 2025Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishing an EU talent poolAgainstForGreens
2 Apr 2025Amendment 64 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForGreens
2 Apr 2025Amendment 53 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForGreens
2 Apr 2025Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 70 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAbstainedGreens
2 Apr 2025Amendment 3, adding text before paragraph 1 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAbstainedGreens
1 Apr 2025Final vote Macro-financial assistance to EgyptAbstainedAgainstGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 25 The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in SyriaAbstainedForGreens
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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
12 Mar 2025Amendment 96, adding text after paragraph 47 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 104 to paragraph 13 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedAgainstGreens

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
Villy SØVNDAL , Greens · Denmark 1.9 %2 6892623337

About these figures

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

  • 2 891 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 78 of 371 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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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
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Villy SØVNDAL”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=111412&to=2025-12-31 (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 · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Villy SØVNDAL}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=111412&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=111412&to=2025-12-31},
  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}
}