Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Virgil-Daniel POPESCU

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 Term 2024 2025 2026 Last 6 months

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Votes Final votes293 All roll calls2 891

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Showing Virgil-Daniel POPESCU only. Show every member

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

Virgil-Daniel POPESCU’s votes against the line, 22

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
25 Nov 2025	Separate vote on paragraph 28 Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded	Against	For	EPP
13 Nov 2025	Recital M — part 2 Gender Equality Strategy 2025	Abstained	For	EPP
9 Oct 2025	Amendment 6 to paragraph 13 Second World Summit for Social Development	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 4 Draft amending budget No 2/2025: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure	Abstained	Against	EPP
9 Sept 2025	Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 6 Public procurement	Abstained	Against	EPP
9 Jul 2025	Separate vote on paragraph 48 Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum	Abstained	For	EPP
9 Jul 2025	Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 23 2023 and 2024 reports on Albania	For	Against	EPP
18 Jun 2025	Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 6 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova	For	Abstained	EPP
8 May 2025	Referral back to committee Screening of foreign investments in the Union	Against	For	EPP
7 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on Kosovo	Abstained	For	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 1 2023 and 2024 reports on Kosovo	Abstained	Against	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 25 The European Water Resilience Strategy	For	Against	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 28 A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world	For	Against	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 9 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Economic and Social Committee	For	Against	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 32, adding text after paragraph 185 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds	For	Against	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 45, adding text after paragraph 108 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds	For	Against	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 44, adding text after paragraph 70 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds	For	Against	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 17 to paragraph 16 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds	For	Against	EPP
3 Apr 2025	Amendment 2 to paragraph 40 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European Parliament	For	Against	EPP
2 Apr 2025	Paragraph 92 — part 2 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024	Abstained	For	EPP
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 53 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024	For	Against	EPP
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 31, adding text after paragraph 9 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024	For	Against	EPP

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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
Virgil-Daniel POPESCU , EPP · Romania	0.9 %	2 316	14	7	1	4

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=257107&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
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Virgil-Daniel POPESCU”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257107&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 · Virgil-Daniel POPESCU}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257107&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257107&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}
}