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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Francisco ASSIS

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

Order Highest rate first By name

Showing Francisco ASSIS only. Show every member

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

Francisco ASSIS’s votes against the line, 19

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
13 Nov 2025	Final vote Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)	Against	For	S&D
13 Nov 2025	Amendment 304 to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements	For	Against	S&D
13 Nov 2025	Amendments 397 + 302 (voted as one) to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements	For	Against	S&D
13 Nov 2025	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 4 Addressing transnational repression of human rights defenders	For	Against	S&D
9 Sept 2025	Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 66 Public procurement	For	Against	S&D
10 Jul 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Case of Ryan Cornelius in Dubai	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2025	Amendment 7 to recital O EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution)	Against	For	S&D
19 Jun 2025	Amendment 3 to recital G Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in Mali	For	Against	S&D
18 Jun 2025	Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 6 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova	For	Against	S&D
8 May 2025	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 5 Arrest and risk of execution of Tundu Lissu, Chair of Chadema, the main opposition party in Tanzania	For	Against	S&D
3 Apr 2025	Demande d'ajournement du groupe The Left Targeted attacks against Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – defending religious freedom and security	For	Against	S&D
3 Apr 2025	Amendment 16 to paragraph 7 — part 1 Energy-intensive industries	Abstained	For	S&D
3 Apr 2025	Amendment 12 to recital 2 Amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards the dates from which Member States are to apply certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements	For	Against	S&D
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 57, adding text after paragraph 43 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024	For	Against	S&D
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 27 to paragraph 4, after indent 6 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024	Against	For	S&D
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 12 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III	For	Against	S&D
12 Mar 2025	Paragraph 58 — part 3 White paper on the future of European defence	Against	For	S&D
11 Feb 2025	Amendment 17, adding text before recital A European Central Bank – annual report 2024	Against	Abstained	S&D
23 Jan 2025	Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 8 Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025	Abstained	Against	S&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).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
Francisco ASSIS , S&D · Portugal	0.9 %	2 097	16	2	1	0

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=28307&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
Retrieved: 29 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Francisco ASSIS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=28307&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 · Francisco ASSIS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=28307&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=28307&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}
}