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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Jens GIESEKE

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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Jens GIESEKE’s votes against the line, 54

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
17 Dec 2025Separate vote on recital R European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 9 Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in SudanAgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 77 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 60 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 60 — part 1 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 18 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 17 — part 3 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
25 Nov 2025Final vote — text as a whole 2024 budget: assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budgetAgainstForEPP
25 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 4 Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is foundedAgainstForEPP
25 Nov 2025Decision to maintain the action Final vote Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposalForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Recital M — part 2 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AgainstForEPP
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 79 — part 1 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AgainstForEPP
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 72 — part 1 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AgainstForEPP
13 Nov 2025Amendment 48 to recital 9 Framework for achieving climate neutralityForAgainstEPP
23 Oct 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 57 Key objectives for the CITES COP20 meeting in UzbekistanForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 48 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 119, adding text after paragraph 35 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 118, adding text after paragraph 35 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 116, adding text after paragraph 30 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
9 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForEPP
9 Oct 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 5 Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakesForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Final vote Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 141 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 139 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 137 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 125 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 124 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 133 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 132 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForEPP
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisisAgainstForEPP
10 Jul 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital S Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitivenessForAgainstEPP
9 Jul 2025Final vote — text as a whole Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political ForumAbstainedForEPP
9 Jul 2025Separate vote on paragraph 48 Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political ForumAbstainedForEPP
9 Jul 2025Paragraph 37 — part 3 Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political ForumAbstainedForEPP
18 Jun 2025Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 61 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportForAgainstEPP
18 Jun 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 57 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportAbstainedForEPP
17 Jun 2025Amendment 186 to Article 3, after paragraph 2 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)AgainstForEPP
22 May 2025Amendment 23 to paragraph 10 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023ForAgainstEPP
22 May 2025Amendment 19, adding text after paragraph 2 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023AgainstAbstainedEPP
8 May 2025Separate vote on paragraph 9 Banking Union – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
7 May 2025Paragraph 40 — part 2 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European External Action ServiceAgainstForEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 46, adding text after paragraph 131 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsForAgainstEPP
5 May 2025Wednesday’s agenda — Request by the Renew Group — TikTok Final vote Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the Renew Group – TikTokAgainstForEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 6 Energy-intensive industriesForAgainstEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 1 Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative CommitteeAgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 92 — part 2 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
13 Mar 2025Paragraph 13 — part 2 Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rightsAbstainedAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 1 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstEPP
Show all 54 votes
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 2025Paragraph 31 — part 6 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 17 — part 2 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 3 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025ForAgainstEPP
13 Feb 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 4 Continuing detention and risk of the death penalty for individuals in Nigeria charged with blasphemy, notably the case of Yahaya Sharif-AminuAgainstForEPP

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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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Jens GIESEKE , EPP · Germany 2.1 %2 620449120

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 · Jens GIESEKE”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=124807&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 · Jens GIESEKE}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=124807&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=124807&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}
}