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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Sandro RUOTOLO

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 Sandro RUOTOLO only. Show every member

Sandro RUOTOLO’s votes against the line, 53

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
18 Dec 2025Separate vote on recital H Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against LithuaniaAgainstForS&D
18 Dec 2025Paragraph 11 — part 2 Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against LithuaniaAgainstForS&D
18 Dec 2025Paragraph 7 — part 2 Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against LithuaniaAgainstForS&D
17 Dec 2025Final vote — text as a whole European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needsAgainstForS&D
27 Nov 2025Amendment 7, adding text after recital B Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in SudanForAbstainedS&D
27 Nov 2025Amendments 2 + 20 (voted as one), adding text after paragraph 26 Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in SudanAbstainedForS&D
27 Nov 2025Recital M — part 2 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAgainstForS&D
27 Nov 2025Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 9 Escalating repression of the Baha’is in IranForAgainstS&D
22 Oct 2025Amendment 96, adding text after paragraph 57 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedAgainstS&D
22 Oct 2025Amendment 48, adding text after paragraph 26 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstS&D
22 Oct 2025Amendment 391 Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstS&D
22 Oct 2025Amendment 362 Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstS&D
22 Oct 2025Amendment 390 Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstS&D
8 Oct 2025Amendment 145 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstS&D
11 Sept 2025Amendment 53, adding text after paragraph 10 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionForAgainstS&D
11 Sept 2025Amendment 31, 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 solutionForAbstainedS&D
11 Sept 2025Amendment 28, 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 solutionForAbstainedS&D
9 Jul 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 24 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 civiliansAgainstForS&D
9 Jul 2025Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 23 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 civiliansAbstainedAgainstS&D
9 Jul 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 20 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 civiliansForAgainstS&D
9 Jul 2025Amendment 9 to paragraph 8 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 civiliansForAgainstS&D
9 Jul 2025Separate vote on paragraph 28 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaAgainstForS&D
8 Jul 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 41 Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstS&D
19 Jun 2025Amendment 9 to paragraph 8 Clean Industrial DealForAgainstS&D
18 Jun 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 41 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstS&D
17 Jun 2025Amendment 186 to Article 3, after paragraph 2 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)AbstainedAgainstS&D
8 May 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 18 Banking Union – annual report 2024ForAgainstS&D
8 May 2025Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 3 Competition policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstS&D
7 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on KosovoAbstainedForS&D
2 Apr 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstS&D
2 Apr 2025Amendment 34, adding text after paragraph 9 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstS&D
2 Apr 2025Amendment 82, adding text after paragraph 22 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstS&D
2 Apr 2025Amendment 81, adding text after paragraph 17 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstS&D
2 Apr 2025Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 10 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstS&D
2 Apr 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 4 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 77, adding text after paragraph 74 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 68 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 108 to paragraph 68 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 96, adding text after paragraph 47 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 15 — part 3 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 14 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 47, adding text after paragraph 4 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 15 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAgainstForS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 14 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAbstainedAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 6 — part 4 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAgainstForS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 16, adding text before paragraph 1 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionForAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 35 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AbstainedAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 5 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AbstainedAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 4 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025ForAbstainedS&D
Show all 53 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
13 Feb 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 9 Repression by the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua, targeting human rights defenders, political opponents and religious communities in particularForAgainstS&D
11 Feb 2025Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 13 European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAbstainedS&D
23 Jan 2025Paragraph 14 — part 2 Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against UkraineAgainstForS&D

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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
Sandro RUOTOLO , S&D · Italy 2.0 %2 6143612537

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 · Sandro RUOTOLO”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257170&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 · Sandro RUOTOLO}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257170&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257170&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}
}