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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Herbert DORFMANN

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 Herbert DORFMANN only. Show every member

Herbert DORFMANN’s votes against the line, 66

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 2025Separate vote on recital R European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Paragraph 27 — part 3 Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management in the workplace – shaping the future of workForAgainstEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 60 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Final vote — text as a whole Rule of law and human rights situation in Tunisia, particularly the case of Sonia DahmaniAbstainedForEPP
26 Nov 2025Amendment 18 to paragraph 11 Protecting EU consumers against the practices of certain e-commerce platforms: the case of child-like sex dolls, weapons and other illegal products and materialForAgainstEPP
26 Nov 2025Amendment 6, adding text after recital 17 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersForAgainstEPP
26 Nov 2025Amendment 20 to Article 1, after point 23 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersForAgainstEPP
26 Nov 2025Amendment 13 to Article 1 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersForAgainstEPP
25 Nov 2025Decision to maintain the action Final vote Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposalForAgainstEPP
23 Oct 2025Paragraph 67 — part 2 Key objectives for the CITES COP20 meeting in UzbekistanAgainstForEPP
23 Oct 2025Paragraph 54 — part 2 Key objectives for the CITES COP20 meeting in UzbekistanAbstainedForEPP
22 Oct 2025Paragraph 4 — part 5 Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiationsAbstainedForEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 41, adding text after paragraph 71 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 119, adding text after paragraph 35 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 33 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForEPP
11 Sept 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 13 Implementation and streamlining of EU internal market rules to strengthen the single marketForAgainstEPP
9 Sept 2025Amendment 3 to paragraph 4 Public procurementForAgainstEPP
9 Sept 2025Amendment 130 to Article 6, paragraph 1, alinéa 1 Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehiclesAgainstForEPP
9 Sept 2025Amendment 398 to Article 3, paragraph 1, après le point 9 Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehiclesForAgainstEPP
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 civiliansAbstainedForEPP
9 Jul 2025Separate vote on paragraph 48 Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political ForumAbstainedForEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 20 to recital L 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 19, adding text after paragraph 7 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 22 to paragraph 7 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 21 to paragraph 3 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 29 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaForAgainstEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 10 to paragraph 26 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaForAgainstEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 23 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaForAgainstEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 23 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaForAbstainedEPP
9 Jul 2025Paragraph 22 — part 2 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaAgainstForEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 5, adding text after recital D Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024ForAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2025Paragraph 28 — part 1 Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
19 Jun 2025Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 5 Case of Ahmadreza Djalali in IranForAgainstEPP
18 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 8 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaAgainstForEPP
18 Jun 2025Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 6 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaForAbstainedEPP
18 Jun 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 41 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2025Final vote — text as a whole Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleForAgainstEPP
22 May 2025Amendment 4, adding text after recital 10 Modification of customs duties applicable to imports of certain goods originating in or exported from the Russian Federation and the Republic of BelarusForAgainstEPP
8 May 2025Separate vote on paragraph 25 Banking Union – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 6, adding text after recital AL The European Water Resilience StrategyForAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 5, adding text after recital R The European Water Resilience StrategyForAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 62 The European Water Resilience StrategyForAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 7 to paragraph 14 The European Water Resilience StrategyForAgainstEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 28 A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing worldForAgainstEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 10 to paragraph 3 Energy-intensive industriesForAgainstEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 1 Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative CommitteeAgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 85 to paragraph 49 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 30 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAbstainedEPP
1 Apr 2025Amendment 46 to Article 2, paragraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to EgyptForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 18, adding text after paragraph 69 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstEPP
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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
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 69 — part 3 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 69 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 69 — part 1 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 62 to paragraph 58 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 19 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 15 — part 3 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 6 — part 4 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAbstainedForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 5 — part 3 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 5 — part 2 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 5 — part 1 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 13, adding text after recital K European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AbstainedAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 35 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AbstainedAgainstEPP
13 Feb 2025Separate vote on paragraph 3 Further deterioration of the political situation in GeorgiaAgainstForEPP
13 Feb 2025Paragraph 2 — part 1 Further deterioration of the political situation in GeorgiaAgainstForEPP
13 Feb 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 7 Recent dismissals and arrests of mayors in TürkiyeForAgainstEPP

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
Herbert DORFMANN , EPP · Italy 2.4 %2 730491430

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 · Herbert DORFMANN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=96787&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 · Herbert DORFMANN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=96787&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=96787&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}
}