Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · Sara MATTHIEU

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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Votes Final votes261 All roll calls2 521

Order Highest rate first By name

Showing Sara MATTHIEU only. Show every member

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

Sara MATTHIEU’s votes against the line, 20

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
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for the defence industry (Omnibus V)	Abstained	For	Greens
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and simplification of security and defence procurement (Omnibus V)	Abstained	For	Greens
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Acceleration of permit-granting for defence readiness projects (Omnibus V)	Abstained	For	Greens
9 Jul 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness	Against	For	Greens
8 Jul 2026	Separate vote on paragraph 21 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Abstained	For	Greens
8 Jul 2026	Final vote EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement	Against	For	Greens
18 Jun 2026	Amendment 1, adding text after recital C Continued crackdown on civic space and fundamental freedoms in Burkina Faso	For	Abstained	Greens
16 Jun 2026	Proposal to vote on amendments Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America	For	Against	Greens
21 May 2026	Amendments 3 + 5 (voted as one) to paragraph 1 The need to reduce work-related fatalities	Abstained	For	Greens
30 Apr 2026	Paragraph 6 — part 2 Escalating trafficking and exploitation by criminal groups in Haiti	Against	For	Greens
26 Mar 2026	Amendment 82 Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)	Against	For	Greens
25 Mar 2026	Wednesday’s agenda — Request by The Left Group — Australia Final vote Wednesday’s agenda – Request by The Left Group – Australia	For	Against	Greens
12 Feb 2026	Amendment 26, adding text after paragraph 13 Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire	Against	Abstained	Greens
12 Feb 2026	Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 11 Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire	For	Against	Greens
10 Feb 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products	Abstained	For	Greens
21 Jan 2026	Amendment 45, adding text after paragraph 57 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025	For	Abstained	Greens
21 Jan 2026	Amendment 12 to paragraph 49 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025	For	Against	Greens
21 Jan 2026	Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025	For	Abstained	Greens
21 Jan 2026	Amendment 19, adding text after paragraph 34 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025	For	Abstained	Greens
20 Jan 2026	Amendment 7 to paragraph 10 — part 2 The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies	For	Abstained	Greens

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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
Sara MATTHIEU , Greens · Belgium	0.8 %	2 473	8	6	6	0

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

2 521 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
81 of 342 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=2026-01-01&mep=208722&to=2026-12-31
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
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · Sara MATTHIEU”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&mep=208722&to=2026-12-31 (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 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · Sara MATTHIEU}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&mep=208722&to=2026-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&mep=208722&to=2026-12-31},
  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}
}