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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Dainius ŽALIMAS

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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Dainius ŽALIMAS’s votes against the line, 23

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
23 Oct 2025Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 9 Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola SummitForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 23 Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 145 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 132 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Paragraph 22 — part 2 Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political ForumAgainstForRenew
18 Jun 2025Amendment 31 to paragraph 44 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityForAgainstRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 33 to paragraph 85 Discharge 2023: AgenciesForAgainstRenew
5 May 2025Wednesday’s agenda — Request by the ECR Group — Cyprus (resolution) Final vote Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the ECR Group – Cyprus (resolution)AbstainedAgainstRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 7 to recital A 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 31, adding text after paragraph 27 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European ParliamentForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 74, adding text after paragraph 10 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 122 to paragraph 118 — part 1 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 121, adding text after paragraph 57 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 119, adding text after paragraph 24 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 30 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForRenew
12 Mar 2025Amendment 103 to paragraph 46 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstRenew
12 Mar 2025Amendment 103 to paragraph 46 — part 1 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstRenew
12 Mar 2025Amendment 100 to paragraph 34 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstRenew
12 Mar 2025Amendment 107, adding text after paragraph 17 — part 1 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstRenew
12 Mar 2025Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 14 — part 1 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstRenew
23 Jan 2025Amendment 9 to paragraph 15 Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against UkraineForAgainstRenew

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
Dainius ŽALIMAS , Renew · Lithuania 0.9 %2 44020210

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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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256807&to=2025-12-31
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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 · Dainius ŽALIMAS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256807&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 · Dainius ŽALIMAS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256807&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256807&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}
}