Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Mika AALTOLA

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 Term 2024 2025 2026 Last 6 months

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Votes Final votes293 All roll calls2 891

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Showing Mika AALTOLA only. Show every member

Group Country Lead committee Topic (model-assigned) Contested votes only (largest side under 80 %)

Mika AALTOLA’s votes against the line, 20

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.
Date	Vote	Position	Clear line	Group
17 Dec 2025	Recital E — part 2 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’	Against	For	EPP
17 Dec 2025	Final vote on the provisional agreement Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders	Against	For	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Decision 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 proposal	For	Against	EPP
23 Oct 2025	Recital J — part 1 Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit	Against	For	EPP
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 118, adding text after paragraph 35 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	For	Against	EPP
20 Oct 2025	Tuesday’s agenda — Request by the ECR Group Final vote Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the ECR Group	Abstained	Against	EPP
9 Oct 2025	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 5 Situation in Afghanistan: supporting women and communities affected by the recent earthquakes	Abstained	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 137 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 125 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 124 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
9 Sept 2025	Separate vote on recital H Public procurement	Against	For	EPP
9 Jul 2025	Final vote on motion B10-0316/2025 Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add certain countries to the list of high-risk third countries, and to remove other countries from that list	For	Against	EPP
9 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole (B10-0315/2025) Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add certain countries to the list of high-risk third countries, and to remove other countries from that list	For	Against	EPP
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 289 to Article 12, paragraph 3, after subparagraph 1 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	For	Against	EPP
18 Jun 2025	Separate vote on paragraph 8 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova	Against	For	EPP
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III	Against	For	EPP
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 55, adding text after paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III	For	Against	EPP
12 Mar 2025	Amendment 108 to paragraph 68 White paper on the future of European defence	For	Against	EPP
13 Feb 2025	Amendment 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-Aminu	Against	For	EPP
11 Feb 2025	Amendment 17, adding text before recital A European Central Bank – annual report 2024	For	Against	EPP

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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).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
Mika AALTOLA , EPP · Finland	0.8 %	2 423	18	2	0	2

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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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256810&to=2025-12-31
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: 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
Retrieved: 29 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Mika AALTOLA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256810&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 · Mika AALTOLA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256810&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256810&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}
}