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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Hristo PETROV

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 Hristo PETROV only. Show every member

Hristo PETROV’s votes against the line, 60

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
16 Dec 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 6 Relations between the EU and Saudi ArabiaForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 67 to Article 14 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 66 to Article 14 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 62 to Article 7 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 84 to Article 6 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 30 to Article 6 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 29 to Article 5 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 76 to Article 3 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 75 to Article 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
16 Dec 2025Amendment 74, adding text after Article 1 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsForAgainstRenew
26 Nov 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 31 Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and materialForAgainstRenew
26 Nov 2025Final vote — text as a whole Protection of minors onlineAbstainedForRenew
26 Nov 2025Paragraph 24 — part 1 Protection of minors onlineAbstainedForRenew
26 Nov 2025Amendment 6 to paragraph 23 Protection of minors onlineForAgainstRenew
26 Nov 2025Amendment 5 to paragraph 20 Protection of minors onlineForAgainstRenew
26 Nov 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 17 Protection of minors onlineForAgainstRenew
26 Nov 2025Recital L — part 2 EU’s diplomatic strategy and geopolitical cooperation in the ArcticAgainstForRenew
13 Nov 2025Amendment 99 to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForRenew
13 Nov 2025Amendment 55, adding text after recital 3 Framework for achieving climate neutralityForAgainstRenew
13 Nov 2025Amendment 56 to Article 1 Framework for achieving climate neutralityForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Paragraph 4 — part 3 Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsAgainstForRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 16 — part 2 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAgainstForRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 54, adding text after paragraph 38 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 390 Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
9 Oct 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 15 Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 29 EU political strategy on Latin AmericaAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstRenew
9 Sept 2025Separate vote on paragraph 84 2023 and 2024 reports on UkraineAbstainedForRenew
9 Sept 2025Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 63 Public procurementForAgainstRenew
9 Sept 2025Amendment 46, adding text after paragraph 56 Public procurementForAgainstRenew
10 Jul 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 26 Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitivenessForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 9, adding text after recital H 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 1 to recital C 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 8, adding text after citation 23 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 78 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 45 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 15 to paragraph 37 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendments 3 + 14 (voted as one) to paragraph 8 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 19, adding text after paragraph 7 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaAgainstForRenew
8 Jul 2025Paragraph 10 — part 1 Security of energy supply in the EUAbstainedForRenew
8 Jul 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 32 EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution)AbstainedForRenew
18 Jun 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 41 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityForAgainstRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 27, adding text after paragraph 143 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsAgainstForRenew
7 May 2025Request for urgent procedure Final vote Amending of the ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term reviewAbstainedAgainstRenew
5 May 2025Wednesday’s agenda — Request by the ECR Group — Cyprus (resolution) Final vote Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the ECR Group – Cyprus (resolution)ForAgainstRenew
3 Apr 2025Separate vote on recital B Energy-intensive industriesAgainstForRenew
3 Apr 2025Amendment 7 to recital A Energy-intensive industriesForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 74, adding text after paragraph 10 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 56 — part 2 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 119, adding text after paragraph 24 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
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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 2025Amendment 84, adding text after paragraph 24 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 9 to paragraph 97, indent 3 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 28 — part 3 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 27 to paragraph 4, after indent 6 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 14 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 55, adding text after paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstRenew
13 Mar 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 8 Severe political, humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sudan, in particular the sexual violence and child rapeForAgainstRenew
12 Mar 2025Amendment 66 to paragraph 62 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstRenew
12 Mar 2025Amendment 66 to paragraph 62 — part 1 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstRenew
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 8 — part 2 European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew

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
Hristo PETROV , Renew · Bulgaria 2.2 %2 752528013

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 · Hristo PETROV”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257257&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 · Hristo PETROV}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257257&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=257257&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}
}