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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Pernando BARRENA ARZA

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
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Pernando BARRENA ARZA’s votes against the line, 66

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 2025Final vote — text as a whole Decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries, and the development and deployment of fishing gearForAgainstThe Left
17 Dec 2025Separate vote on recital Q European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AgainstForThe Left
17 Dec 2025Paragraph 23 — part 2 European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needsForAgainstThe Left
23 Oct 2025Recital J — part 2 Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola SummitForAgainstThe Left
22 Oct 2025Separate vote on recital D Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsAbstainedAgainstThe Left
9 Oct 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024AbstainedForThe Left
8 Oct 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Côte d’Ivoire Fisheries Partnership Agreement – Protocol on the implementation of the Agreement for 2025-2029ForAgainstThe Left
8 Oct 2025Amendment 113 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstThe Left
8 Oct 2025Amendment 125 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAbstainedAgainstThe Left
8 Oct 2025Amendment 124 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstThe Left
11 Sept 2025Separate vote on paragraph 19 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedForThe Left
11 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single marketAbstainedAgainstThe Left
10 Sept 2025Amendment 4, adding text after recital F Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interferenceAgainstAbstainedThe Left
10 Sept 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 16 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interferenceAgainstAbstainedThe Left
10 Sept 2025Paragraph 12 — part 1 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interferenceAbstainedForThe Left
10 Sept 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of VanuatuForAgainstThe Left
10 Sept 2025Final vote Insolvency proceedings: replacing Annexes A and BAbstainedForThe Left
10 Sept 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Securities settlement in the EU and central securities depositories (CSDs): shorter settlement cycle in the UnionAgainstAbstainedThe Left
10 Jul 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 14 Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictionsForAgainstThe Left
10 Jul 2025Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 13 Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictionsAgainstForThe Left
10 Jul 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 7 — part 1 Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in DamascusAbstainedForThe Left
9 Jul 2025Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 23 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaAgainstForThe Left
8 Jul 2025Separate vote on citation 11 Security of energy supply in the EUAgainstForThe Left
8 Jul 2025Paragraph 49 — part 2 Security of energy supply in the EUAbstainedForThe Left
8 Jul 2025Final vote Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026ForAbstainedThe Left
19 Jun 2025Final vote — text as a whole Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in MaliAbstainedForThe Left
19 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 6 Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in MaliAbstainedForThe Left
19 Jun 2025Final vote — text as a whole Case of Ahmadreza Djalali in IranAbstainedForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 37 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaForAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Final vote — text as a whole The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportAbstainedForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 4 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 3 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForThe Left
16 Jun 2025Tuesday’s agenda — Request by the PPE, S&D and Renew groups Final vote Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the PPE, S&D and Renew groupsAgainstAbstainedThe Left
22 May 2025Final vote Euratom Research and Training Programme for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon EuropeForAbstainedThe Left
8 May 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 1 Banking Union – annual report 2024AgainstAbstainedThe Left
8 May 2025Final vote The protection status of the wolf (Canis lupus)AbstainedAgainstThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 44, adding text after paragraph 18 2023 and 2024 reports on TürkiyeAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 37 A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing worldAbstainedAgainstThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 96 Discharge 2023: European Public Prosecutor’s OfficeAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 3 Discharge 2023: European Public Prosecutor’s OfficeAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Final vote Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European External Action ServiceAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 47 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European OmbudsmanAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 11 — part 1 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European UnionAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 11 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European UnionAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 36, adding text after paragraph 251 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 34, adding text after paragraph 224 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsAgainstForThe Left
7 May 2025Amendment 32, adding text after paragraph 185 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsAgainstForThe Left
6 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023AbstainedForThe Left
6 May 2025A10–0064/2025 — Adam Jarubas — Consent procedure Final vote Amendments to the International Health Regulations contained in the Annex to Resolution WHA77.17 and adopted on 1 June 2024AbstainedForThe Left
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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
2 Apr 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 87 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstAbstainedThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 30 to paragraph 8 — part 1 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision Protocol on the Implementation of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (2024-2029)ForAgainstThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 53, adding text after paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstThe Left
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 15 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionForAgainstThe Left
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 8 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025ForAbstainedThe Left
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 5 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025ForAbstainedThe Left
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 10 — part 2 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AbstainedAgainstThe Left
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 10 — part 1 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AbstainedAgainstThe Left
12 Mar 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Norway Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European UnionAgainstAbstainedThe Left
11 Mar 2025Final vote Verification of credentialsAgainstForThe Left
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 32 — part 1 European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstThe Left
11 Feb 2025Separate vote on paragraph 25 European Central Bank – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstThe Left
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 23 — part 1 European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstThe Left
11 Feb 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision Conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Protocol (2024-2029) implementing the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Cabo VerdeForAgainstThe Left
23 Jan 2025Paragraph 14 — part 1 Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against UkraineAbstainedForThe 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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Pernando BARRENA ARZA , The Left · Spain 3.3 %1 9853322110

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 · Pernando BARRENA ARZA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=197684&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 · Pernando BARRENA ARZA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=197684&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=197684&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}
}