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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Elsi KATAINEN

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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Elsi KATAINEN’s votes against the line, 58

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 2025Paragraph 2 — part 1 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AgainstForRenew
27 Nov 2025Amendment 16, adding text after recital F Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in SudanAbstainedForRenew
27 Nov 2025Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 9 Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in SudanAbstainedForRenew
27 Nov 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 87 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024ForAgainstRenew
27 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 26 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForRenew
26 Nov 2025Amendments 109 + 23 (voted as one) to recital 14 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersForAgainstRenew
26 Nov 2025Amendments 28 + 90 + 131 (voted as one) to Article 1 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersForAgainstRenew
26 Nov 2025Amendments 62 + 123 (voted as one) to Article 1 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersForAgainstRenew
25 Nov 2025Separate vote on citation 11 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AgainstForRenew
25 Nov 2025Separate vote on citation 10 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AgainstForRenew
25 Nov 2025Paragraph 9 — part 2 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AbstainedForRenew
25 Nov 2025Paragraph 8 — part 2 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AgainstForRenew
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 proposalAgainstForRenew
13 Nov 2025Final vote Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AbstainedForRenew
23 Oct 2025Amendment 10 to paragraph 23 Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola SummitForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsAgainstForRenew
22 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 12 Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsAgainstForRenew
22 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 10 Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsAgainstForRenew
22 Oct 2025Paragraph 4 — part 5 Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsAgainstForRenew
9 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 17 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 13 — part 2 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForRenew
9 Oct 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 9 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentForAgainstRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 4 — part 3 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 4 — part 2 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 1 — part 2 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForRenew
9 Oct 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 5 Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakesForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 4 Draft amending budget No 2/2025: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditureAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 133 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
11 Sept 2025Amendment 10 to paragraph 15 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionForAgainstRenew
10 Sept 2025Amendment 13 to paragraph 62 Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policyAgainstForRenew
9 Sept 2025Amendment 388 to Article 18, paragraph 1 Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehiclesForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 20 The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civiliansForAgainstRenew
18 Jun 2025Recital G — part 2 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForRenew
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 4 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForRenew
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 3 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForRenew
17 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 53 Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleAbstainedForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 23 2023 and 2024 reports on TürkiyeForAgainstRenew
7 May 2025Recital O — part 2 The European Water Resilience StrategyAgainstForRenew
7 May 2025Paragraph 9 — part 2 The European Water Resilience StrategyAgainstForRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 8, adding text after recital B Energy-intensive industriesForAgainstRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 1, adding text after recital C Execution spree in Iran and the confirmation of the death sentences of activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi HassaniForAbstainedRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 8 Execution spree in Iran and the confirmation of the death sentences of activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi HassaniAgainstForRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 122 to paragraph 118 — part 1 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 119, adding text after paragraph 24 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 9 to paragraph 97, indent 3 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 45, adding text after paragraph 35 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 30 to paragraph 12 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 29 to paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstRenew
13 Mar 2025Paragraph 5 — part 5 Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rightsAgainstForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 73 — part 1 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForRenew
Show all 58 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 2025Amendment 106, adding text after paragraph 16 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstRenew
12 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AbstainedForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 31 — part 4 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AbstainedForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 31 — part 3 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AgainstForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 24 — part 2 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AgainstForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 19 — part 2 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AgainstForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 17 — part 3 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AgainstForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 7 — part 2 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AbstainedForRenew

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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
Elsi KATAINEN , Renew · Finland 2.1 %2 709489138

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 · Elsi KATAINEN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=191693&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 · Elsi KATAINEN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=191693&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=191693&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}
}