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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Alexander SELL

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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Alexander SELL’s votes against the line, 25

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
27 Nov 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 1 EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for UkraineAbstainedForESN
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 23 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedAgainstESN
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 17 — part 3 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedAgainstESN
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 17 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedAgainstESN
27 Nov 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 5 Escalating repression of the Baha’is in IranAbstainedForESN
26 Nov 2025Recital J — part 2 Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1818 as regards the definition of prohibited weaponsAbstainedForESN
26 Nov 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under the InvestEU Regulation and simplifying reporting requirementsForAgainstESN
13 Nov 2025Amendment 93, adding text after Article 45 Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)ForAgainstESN
9 Oct 2025Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 15 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024AgainstForESN
18 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 32 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaAbstainedAgainstESN
8 May 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 18 Banking Union – annual report 2024AbstainedForESN
7 May 2025Paragraph 93 — part 2 Discharge 2023: European Public Prosecutor’s OfficeForAgainstESN
3 Apr 2025Amendment 15 to paragraph 6 — part 4 Energy-intensive industriesForAgainstESN
3 Apr 2025Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 39 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European ParliamentForAgainstESN
2 Apr 2025Amendment 53 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForESN
2 Apr 2025Amendment 51, adding text after paragraph 51 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForESN
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 45 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstAbstainedESN
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 45 — part 1 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstESN
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 57 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstESN
12 Feb 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital M Genetically modified maize MON 95275AbstainedForESN
12 Feb 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 5 Genetically modified maize MON 95275AbstainedForESN
12 Feb 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 4 Genetically modified maize MON 95275AbstainedForESN
12 Feb 2025Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP910521AbstainedForESN
12 Feb 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital V Genetically modified maize DP910521AbstainedForESN
12 Feb 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 4 Genetically modified maize DP910521AbstainedForESN

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
Alexander SELL , ESN · Germany 1.0 %2 41881610

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=256959&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 · Alexander SELL”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256959&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 · Alexander SELL}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256959&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256959&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}
}