Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · José CEPEDA

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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Votes Final votes293 All roll calls2 891

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

José CEPEDA’s votes against the line, 35

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
18 Dec 2025	Paragraph 7 — part 2 Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against Lithuania	Against	For	S&D
17 Dec 2025	Paragraph 2 — part 1 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’	Against	For	S&D
27 Nov 2025	Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 1 EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine	For	Against	S&D
27 Nov 2025	Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 1 EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine	For	Against	S&D
27 Nov 2025	Amendment 1 to paragraph 87 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024	For	Against	S&D
26 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2429 as regards origin labelling for fruit and vegetables originating in the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara	Against	For	S&D
26 Nov 2025	Amendments 63 + 128 (voted as one) to Article 1 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders	For	Against	S&D
13 Nov 2025	Amendment 378 to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements	For	Against	S&D
13 Nov 2025	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 4 Addressing transnational repression of human rights defenders	Abstained	Against	S&D
23 Oct 2025	Amendment 10 to paragraph 23 Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit	For	Against	S&D
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 104 to paragraph 58 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	For	Against	S&D
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 48 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	For	Against	S&D
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 396 Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	For	Against	S&D
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 363 Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	For	Against	S&D
8 Oct 2025	Amendments 81 + 86 (voted as one) 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	Against	For	S&D
10 Sept 2025	Amendments 79 + 81 (voted as one) Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review	For	Against	S&D
9 Sept 2025	Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 1 2023 and 2024 reports on Ukraine	Against	For	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 3 to recital G Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in Mali	For	Against	S&D
8 May 2025	Amendment 8, adding text after recital 10 The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season	Abstained	Against	S&D
7 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on Kosovo	Abstained	For	S&D
3 Apr 2025	Amendment 16 to paragraph 7 — part 1 Energy-intensive industries	Abstained	For	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
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 36 to Article 4, paragraph 3, subparagraph 1, point a Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 35 to Article 3, after paragraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	Abstained	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 32 to Article 3, paragraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 48 to Article 3, paragraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 47 to Article 3, paragraph 1 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 46 to Article 2, paragraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 19 to Article 2, paragraph 1 — part 2 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	For	Against	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 45 to Article 2, paragraph 1 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 44 to Article 1, paragraph 3, after subparagraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 30 to Article 1, paragraph 3, subparagraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Amendment 43 to Article 1, paragraph 3, subparagraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	S&D
12 Mar 2025	Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 14 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defence	For	Against	S&D
12 Mar 2025	Amendment 43, adding text after paragraph 2 White paper on the future of European defence	Against	For	S&D

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).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
José CEPEDA , S&D · Spain	1.3 %	2 630	30	4	1	21

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=257002&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 · José CEPEDA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257002&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 · José CEPEDA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257002&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257002&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}
}