Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Bruno TOBBACK

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

Order Highest rate first By name

Showing Bruno TOBBACK only. Show every member

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

Bruno TOBBACK’s votes against the line, 31

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
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 159, adding text after paragraph 82 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	For	Against	S&D
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 94 to paragraph 52 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	Against	For	S&D
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 73, adding text after paragraph 22 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	Against	For	S&D
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 130, adding text after paragraph 18 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	For	Against	S&D
9 Oct 2025	Separate vote on paragraph 33 United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure	Against	For	S&D
9 Oct 2025	Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024	For	Against	S&D
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 145 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	S&D
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 144 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	S&D
8 Oct 2025	Final vote 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 penalties	Against	For	S&D
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 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 penalties	For	Against	S&D
9 Sept 2025	Amendment 390 to Article 55, après le paragraph 2 Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles	For	Against	S&D
9 Sept 2025	Amendment 389 to Article 38, paragraph 3, après le point b Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles	For	Against	S&D
9 Sept 2025	Amendment 388 to Article 18, paragraph 1 Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles	For	Against	S&D
9 Sept 2025	Amendment 387 to Article 7, après le paragraph 4 Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles	For	Against	S&D
10 Jul 2025	Amendment 1, adding text after citation 2 Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness	For	Against	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 24 to paragraph 15 Clean Industrial Deal	Abstained	Against	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 6 Clean Industrial Deal	Abstained	Against	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 293 to Article 26, paragraph 2 — part 1 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	For	Against	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 292 to Article 17, paragraph 4, subparagraph 1 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	For	Abstained	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 288 to Article 8, paragraph 2 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	For	Abstained	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 286 to Article 4, after paragraph 1 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	For	Against	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 283 to Article 2, after paragraph 2 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	For	Against	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 264 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	Against	For	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 55 — part 2 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	Against	For	S&D
17 Jun 2025	Amendment 186 to Article 3, after paragraph 2 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)	For	Against	S&D
3 Apr 2025	Amendment 1, adding text after recital C Execution spree in Iran and the confirmation of the death sentences of activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani	Against	For	S&D
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 1 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024	Abstained	Against	S&D
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 53 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024	For	Against	S&D
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 70 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024	Abstained	Against	S&D
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 82, adding text after paragraph 22 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III	For	Against	S&D
20 Jan 2025	Ordre du jour de mercredi — Demande du groupe The Left Final vote Wednesday’s agenda – Request by The Left Group	For	Against	S&D

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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
Bruno TOBBACK , S&D · Belgium	1.1 %	2 780	25	4	2	16

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=256885&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 · Bruno TOBBACK”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256885&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 · Bruno TOBBACK}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256885&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256885&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}
}