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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER

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

Showing Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER only. Show every member

Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER’s votes against the line, 47

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 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Simplification of the content and presentation of information to be disclosed concerning environmentally sustainable activities and simplification of certain technical screening criteria for determining whether economic activities cause no significant harm to environmental objectivesAbstainedAgainstRenew
27 Nov 2025Amendment 1, adding text after recital J Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementForAgainstRenew
26 Nov 2025Amendments 28 + 90 + 131 (voted as one) to Article 1 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersForAgainstRenew
13 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 64 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AbstainedForRenew
13 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 57 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AgainstForRenew
13 Nov 2025Final vote Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsForAgainstRenew
23 Oct 2025Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 12 — part 1 Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola SummitForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 18 Polarisation and increased repression in Serbia, one year after the Novi Sad tragedyAbstainedAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Paragraph 17 — part 2 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAgainstForRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 178 to paragraph 79, after point l General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 177 to paragraph 79, after point l General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
9 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAbstainedForRenew
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 2025Paragraph 10 — part 2 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 4 — part 3 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 1 — part 2 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 85 to Annex I Amending certain CAP regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penaltiesForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 84 to Annex I Amending certain CAP regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penaltiesForAgainstRenew
11 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedForRenew
11 Sept 2025Separate vote on paragraph 25 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedForRenew
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policyAgainstForRenew
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisisAbstainedForRenew
10 Sept 2025Proposal to vote on amendments Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term reviewForAgainstRenew
10 Jul 2025Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 5 Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in DamascusAgainstAbstainedRenew
9 Jul 2025Separate vote on paragraph 18 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 civiliansAbstainedForRenew
9 Jul 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Deforestation Regulation - list of countries presenting a low or high riskAbstainedAgainstRenew
8 Jul 2025Final vote — text as a whole Security of energy supply in the EUAgainstForRenew
8 Jul 2025Paragraph 10 — part 1 Security of energy supply in the EUAgainstForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 10 The European Water Resilience StrategyAbstainedForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 5 to paragraph 8 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European External Action ServiceAgainstForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 131 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsForAgainstRenew
5 May 2025Wednesday’s agenda — Request by the Verts/ALE Group — Gaza Final vote Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE Group – GazaForAgainstRenew
3 Apr 2025Separate vote on recital B Energy-intensive industriesAgainstForRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 16 to paragraph 7 — part 3 Energy-intensive industriesAgainstForRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 16 to paragraph 7 — part 2 Energy-intensive industriesAgainstForRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 15 to paragraph 6 — part 7 Energy-intensive industriesAgainstForRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 15 to paragraph 6 — part 6 Energy-intensive industriesAgainstForRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 39 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European ParliamentForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 80 to paragraph 27 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
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 73, adding text after paragraph 7 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 51, adding text after paragraph 51 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 28 — part 3 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
1 Apr 2025Amendment 5 — part 3 Macro-financial assistance to EgyptAgainstForRenew
11 Feb 2025Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 13 European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForRenew

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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
Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER , Renew · Austria 2.2 %2 1523412144

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 · Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256841&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 · Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256841&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256841&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}
}