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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Michele PICARO

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

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Michele PICARO’s votes against the line, 28

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 2025Paragraph 23 — part 2 European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needsAbstainedForECR
26 Nov 2025Paragraph 17 — part 1 Protection of minors onlineForAgainstECR
26 Nov 2025Amendment 26 to Article 1 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersAgainstForECR
13 Nov 2025Final vote Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AbstainedAgainstECR
13 Nov 2025Amendments 178 + 384 (voted as one) to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForECR
13 Nov 2025Amendment 44 to Article 1 Framework for achieving climate neutralityForAgainstECR
11 Sept 2025Amendment 51, adding text after paragraph 4 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedAgainstECR
11 Sept 2025Amendment 47, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedAgainstECR
10 Sept 2025Paragraph 12 — part 2 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interferenceForAgainstECR
9 Sept 2025Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 66 Public procurementAgainstAbstainedECR
9 Sept 2025Paragraph 65 — part 2 Public procurementForAgainstECR
9 Sept 2025Paragraph 46 — part 2 Public procurementAbstainedForECR
9 Sept 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 39 Public procurementAbstainedAgainstECR
9 Sept 2025Paragraph 13 — part 2 Public procurementForAgainstECR
10 Jul 2025Amendment 7 to paragraph 13 Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictionsAbstainedAgainstECR
9 Jul 2025Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 74 2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and HerzegovinaAbstainedAgainstECR
18 Jun 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 57 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportForAgainstECR
8 May 2025Amendment 6 to paragraph 16 Banking Union – annual report 2024AbstainedForECR
6 May 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 1 Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023AbstainedForECR
3 Apr 2025Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishing an EU talent poolAbstainedAgainstECR
2 Apr 2025Amendment 54, adding text after paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstECR
2 Apr 2025Amendment 147 to paragraph 4, after indent 8 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForECR
2 Apr 2025Amendment 82, adding text after paragraph 22 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstECR
2 Apr 2025Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAbstainedForECR
2 Apr 2025Amendment 34, adding text after paragraph 1 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAgainstForECR
13 Mar 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 6 Unlawful detention and sham trials of Armenian hostages, including high-ranking political representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh, by AzerbaijanAbstainedForECR
12 Mar 2025Amendment 50, adding text after paragraph 5 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedAgainstECR
11 Feb 2025Amendment 26 to paragraph 18 European Central Bank – annual report 2024AbstainedForECR

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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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Michele PICARO , ECR · Italy 1.2 %2 3211215113

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=257150&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 · Michele PICARO”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257150&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 · Michele PICARO}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257150&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257150&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}
}