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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Hélder SOUSA SILVA

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 Hélder SOUSA SILVA only. Show every member

Hélder SOUSA SILVA’s votes against the line, 75

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
17 Dec 2025Separate vote on recital R European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Amendment 7, adding text after recital P European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Amendment 6 to recital N European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2025Recital J — part 2 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Recital J — part 1 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Recital E — part 2 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Amendment 3 to recital E European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2025Separate vote on paragraph 8 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Separate vote on paragraph 7 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2025Amendment 10 to paragraph 5 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2025Amendment 9 to paragraph 2 European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Dec 2025Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union levelAbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Application of the ‘safe third country’ conceptAgainstForEPP
25 Nov 2025Paragraph 2 — part 1 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AbstainedForEPP
25 Nov 2025Amendment 1 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)ForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 21 — part 1 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AgainstForEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 3 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 civiliansForAgainstEPP
9 Jul 2025Separate vote on paragraph 48 Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political ForumAbstainedForEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 39 Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU importsForAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 41 Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 55 The European Water Resilience StrategyAbstainedAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 27 to paragraph 102 Discharge 2023: AgenciesAbstainedForEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 6 to paragraph 10 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European External Action ServiceAbstainedAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 5 to paragraph 8 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European External Action ServiceForAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 20 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAbstainedAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 7 to paragraph 74 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsForAgainstEPP
6 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023AbstainedForEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 1 Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative CommitteeAbstainedForEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 3, adding text after recital B Execution spree in Iran and the confirmation of the death sentences of activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi HassaniAbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 67, adding text after recital J Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 62, adding text after paragraph 52 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 58, adding text after paragraph 44 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 80 to paragraph 27 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 14 — part 2 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 149 to paragraph 151 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 148 to paragraph 143 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 146 to paragraph 125 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 122 to paragraph 118 — part 1 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 141 to paragraph 56 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 24, adding text after recital L Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 21, adding text after recital L Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 70 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 45 — part 4 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 45 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 44 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 46, adding text after paragraph 37 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 45, adding text after paragraph 35 — part 1 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 39, adding text after paragraph 29 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 29 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 28 — part 4 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
Show all 75 votes
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
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 28 — part 3 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 28 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 4, indent 7 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 10 Protocol on the Implementation of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (2024-2029) (Resolution)ForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 22, adding text after paragraph 25 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 20, adding text after paragraph 24 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 13 to paragraph 14 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAgainstForEPP
13 Mar 2025Paragraph 5 — part 1 Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rightsAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 28 — part 2 The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in SyriaAbstainedAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 25, adding text after recital J White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 24, adding text after recital E White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 76 to paragraph 71 — part 1 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 58 — part 4 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 58 — part 3 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 62 to paragraph 58 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 55 to paragraph 20 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 19 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 11 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAbstainedAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 6 — part 4 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAbstainedForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 29 — part 2 European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025ForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 13, adding text after recital K European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025ForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 35 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025ForAgainstEPP
11 Feb 2025Amendment 19, adding text after recital A European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
11 Feb 2025Amendment 18, adding text after recital A European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP

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
Hélder SOUSA SILVA , EPP · Portugal 3.6 %2 0803441056

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 · Hélder SOUSA SILVA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257068&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 · Hélder SOUSA SILVA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257068&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257068&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}
}