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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Catarina MARTINS

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 Catarina MARTINS only. Show every member

Catarina MARTINS’s votes against the line, 21

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
13 Nov 2025Amendment 1, adding text after recital 5 Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association ProcessAbstainedAgainstThe Left
13 Nov 2025Amendment 167 to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForThe Left
22 Oct 2025Separate vote on recital D Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsAbstainedAgainstThe Left
22 Oct 2025Amendment 177 to paragraph 79, after point l General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForThe Left
9 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 33 United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructureAbstainedAgainstThe Left
9 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 6 United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructureAbstainedAgainstThe Left
8 Oct 2025Final 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 penaltiesAbstainedAgainstThe Left
8 Jul 2025Separate vote on citation 11 Security of energy supply in the EUAgainstForThe Left
19 Jun 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 7 Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in MaliForAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 37 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaForAgainstThe Left
3 Apr 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 31 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European ParliamentAgainstForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 26 to recital U Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 25 The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in SyriaAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 1 The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in SyriaForAgainstThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 14 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 5 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AgainstForThe Left
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 23 — part 3 European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForThe Left
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 23 — part 2 European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForThe Left
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 8 — part 1 European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForThe Left
23 Jan 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 4 Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostagesAgainstForThe Left
22 Jan 2025Amendments 4 + 7 (voted as one) to paragraph 19 Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in BelarusAbstainedAgainstThe Left

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
Catarina MARTINS , The Left · Portugal 1.2 %1 75113800

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=257063&to=2025-12-31
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Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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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 · Catarina MARTINS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257063&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 · Catarina MARTINS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257063&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257063&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}
}