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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO

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 João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO only. Show every member

João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO’s votes against the line, 48

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
23 Oct 2025Amendment 10 to paragraph 23 Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola SummitForAgainstRenew
9 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAbstainedForRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 10 — part 2 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAbstainedForRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 10 — part 1 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAbstainedForRenew
9 Oct 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 9 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentForAgainstRenew
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 1 — part 2 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAbstainedForRenew
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 29 EU political strategy on Latin AmericaAgainstForRenew
7 Oct 2025Amendments 1 + 2 (voted as one) Extension of the derogation for heavy-duty vehicles with zero emissionsForAgainstRenew
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 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 49 Role of cohesion policy in supporting the just transitionAbstainedForRenew
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 civiliansForAbstainedRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 29 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 23, adding text after paragraph 24 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaAbstainedAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 22, adding text after paragraph 24 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaAbstainedAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 23 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaAbstainedAgainstRenew
19 Jun 2025Paragraph 23 — part 1 Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy systemAgainstForRenew
19 Jun 2025Amendment 289 to Article 12, paragraph 3, after subparagraph 1 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceabilityAbstainedForRenew
19 Jun 2025Amendment 288 to Article 8, paragraph 2 Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceabilityAbstainedForRenew
18 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 8 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaAgainstForRenew
18 Jun 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 60 2023 and 2024 reports on MontenegroAbstainedForRenew
18 Jun 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 60 2023 and 2024 reports on MontenegroAbstainedForRenew
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 53 — part 2 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportAgainstForRenew
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 47 — part 4 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportAbstainedForRenew
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 36 — part 2 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportAgainstForRenew
18 Jun 2025Amendment 18, adding text after paragraph 19 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstRenew
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 4 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedForRenew
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 3 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedForRenew
17 Jun 2025Final vote — text as a whole Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleAbstainedForRenew
17 Jun 2025Paragraph 67 — part 2 Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleAgainstForRenew
17 Jun 2025Paragraph 66 — part 2 Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleAgainstForRenew
17 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 24 Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleAbstainedForRenew
17 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 20 Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleAgainstForRenew
8 May 2025Amendment 23, adding text after paragraph 21 — part 2 Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal marketForAgainstRenew
8 May 2025Amendment 23, adding text after paragraph 21 — part 1 Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal marketForAgainstRenew
8 May 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 18 Banking Union – annual report 2024AbstainedForRenew
8 May 2025Separate vote on paragraph 17 Banking Union – annual report 2024AbstainedForRenew
8 May 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Ninth report on economic and social cohesionAbstainedForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 3 to paragraph 19 2023 and 2024 reports on TürkiyeForAgainstRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 102 — part 3 Discharge 2023: European Public Prosecutor’s OfficeForAgainstRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 20 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAgainstForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 66, adding text after paragraph 16 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsForAgainstRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 15 to paragraph 6 — part 1 Energy-intensive industriesForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 70, adding text after recital R — part 2 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstRenew
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 2024AbstainedAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 149 to paragraph 4, indent 20 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 30 to paragraph 12 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstRenew
12 Feb 2025Final vote Administrative cooperation in the field of taxationAbstainedForRenew

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
João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO , Renew · Portugal 2.3 %2 0722225132

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 · João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257057&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 · João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257057&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257057&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}
}