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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · René AUST

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 René AUST only. Show every member

René AUST’s votes against the line, 39

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 2025Paragraph 11 — part 2 Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against LithuaniaAgainstForESN
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 258 — part 1 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAbstainedAgainstESN
26 Nov 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital E Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and materialForAgainstESN
25 Nov 2025Amendment 4 to recital E Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is foundedAgainstForESN
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 74 — part 1 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AgainstAbstainedESN
13 Nov 2025Amendment 38 to Article 1 — part 2 Framework for achieving climate neutralityForAgainstESN
23 Oct 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution InvestEU Fund strategic investments in the field of defenceForAgainstESN
23 Oct 2025Final vote Dates of application and transitional provisions for chemical productsAgainstForESN
22 Oct 2025Amendment 395 Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForESN
9 Oct 2025Amendment 5 to paragraph 5 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForESN
11 Sept 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 4 Detention of EU citizens in the occupied areas of CyprusAgainstAbstainedESN
11 Sept 2025Amendment 3 to paragraph 2 Detention of EU citizens in the occupied areas of CyprusAgainstAbstainedESN
9 Jul 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 4 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 civiliansForAbstainedESN
9 Jul 2025Paragraph 42 — part 2 Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political ForumAbstainedAgainstESN
9 Jul 2025Paragraph 23 — part 3 Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political ForumAbstainedAgainstESN
18 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 8 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaForAgainstESN
18 Jun 2025Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 6 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaForAbstainedESN
18 Jun 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 4 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaForAgainstESN
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 47 — part 3 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportAbstainedAgainstESN
18 Jun 2025Amendment 3 to paragraph 5 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportForAbstainedESN
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 7 — part 2 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstESN
18 Jun 2025Final vote Adoption by the Union of the Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter TreatyForAgainstESN
18 Jun 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Macro-financial assistance to EgyptAbstainedForESN
17 Jun 2025Amendment 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)ForAbstainedESN
22 May 2025Amendment 24 to paragraph 11 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023AbstainedAgainstESN
22 May 2025Amendment 13, adding text after recital 27 Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanismForAbstainedESN
8 May 2025Amendment 3, adding text after recital 9 The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter seasonAbstainedAgainstESN
3 Apr 2025Amendment 16 to paragraph 7 — part 1 Energy-intensive industriesForAgainstESN
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 49 — part 2 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstESN
2 Apr 2025Amendment 79 to paragraph 13 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstESN
2 Apr 2025Amendment 66, adding text after paragraph 1 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstESN
2 Apr 2025Separate vote on paragraph 4, indent 8 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForESN
2 Apr 2025Final vote Strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movementForAgainstESN
1 Apr 2025Amendment 39 to recital 3 Macro-financial assistance to EgyptAgainstForESN
12 Mar 2025Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 4 The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in SyriaAbstainedForESN
12 Mar 2025Amendment 44, adding text after paragraph 2 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedAgainstESN
13 Feb 2025Separate vote on paragraph 11 Escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the CongoForAbstainedESN
13 Feb 2025Paragraph 2 — part 1 Further deterioration of the political situation in GeorgiaAbstainedAgainstESN
23 Jan 2025Paragraph 5 — part 3 Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025AgainstAbstainedESN

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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
René AUST , ESN · Germany 1.6 %2 5131712100

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=256929&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 · René AUST”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256929&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.
BibTeX 
@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 · René AUST}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256929&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256929&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}
}