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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · Waldemar BUDA

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 votes261All roll calls2 521
Order Highest rate firstBy name

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Waldemar BUDA’s votes against the line, 57

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 Sept 2026Final vote — text as a whole Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-upAbstainedForECR
16 Sept 2026Paragraph 18 — part 1 Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditionsForAgainstECR
16 Sept 2026Final vote — text as a whole Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructureAbstainedForECR
15 Sept 2026Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 36 The EU Youth Strategy 2019–2027AbstainedAgainstECR
15 Sept 2026Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditureAgainstAbstainedECR
15 Sept 2026Amendment 70 to Article 1, paragraph 1, point 17; Regulation (EU) 2023/956 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measuresAbstainedAgainstECR
8 Jul 2026Separate vote on recital J The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equalityAbstainedForECR
8 Jul 2026Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 2 The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equalityAbstainedAgainstECR
8 Jul 2026Paragraph 2 — part 2 The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equalityAbstainedForECR
8 Jul 2026Amendment 22 to paragraph 34 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)ForAgainstECR
8 Jul 2026Amendment 20 to paragraph 33 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)AbstainedAgainstECR
8 Jul 2026Final vote EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership AgreementAgainstForECR
7 Jul 2026Separate vote on paragraph 9 A new strategy for media literacy and digital learningAgainstAbstainedECR
7 Jul 2026Final vote — text as a whole Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025AgainstForECR
21 May 2026Recital A — part 1 Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gapAbstainedForECR
21 May 2026Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 4 Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for CourtsAbstainedAgainstECR
21 May 2026Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 4 — part 1 Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for CourtsAbstainedForECR
20 May 2026Paragraph 19 — part 1 Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU responseAgainstForECR
19 May 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Screening of foreign investments in the UnionAbstainedForECR
30 Apr 2026Paragraph 22 — part 2 Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in UkraineAgainstForECR
30 Apr 2026Final vote — text as a whole New Chinese law on ‘ethnic unity and progress’ and the intensified suppression of ethnic identitiesAgainstForECR
29 Apr 2026Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 113 The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law reportAbstainedForECR
29 Apr 2026Amendment 48 to recital S Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025AgainstForECR
29 Apr 2026Amendment 11, adding text after recital L Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025AbstainedAgainstECR
29 Apr 2026Paragraph 108 — part 1 Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025AbstainedForECR
29 Apr 2026Separate vote on paragraph 71 Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025ForAgainstECR
29 Apr 2026Amendment 20, adding text after Article 1 Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sectorAgainstForECR
29 Apr 2026Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European ParliamentAgainstAbstainedECR
29 Apr 2026Amendment 56 to paragraph 202 Discharge 2024: EU general budget – CommissionAbstainedForECR
28 Apr 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Control, transparency and traceability of performance-based instrumentsAbstainedForECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 5 to paragraph 25 Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstECR
28 Apr 2026Amendments 125 + 129 (voted as one), adding text after Article 29 (corresponds to Article 34 in am 120) Generalised scheme of tariff preferencesAbstainedForECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 7 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section IIIAgainstForECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 34 to paragraph 71 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034AbstainedAgainstECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 28 to paragraph 47 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034AbstainedAgainstECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 19 to paragraph 38 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034AbstainedAgainstECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 18, adding text after paragraph 37 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034AbstainedAgainstECR
28 Apr 2026Paragraph 5 — part 2 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034AbstainedAgainstECR
11 Mar 2026Separate vote on paragraph 33 EU enlargement strategyAbstainedAgainstECR
11 Mar 2026Paragraph 32 — part 3 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026ForAgainstECR
11 Mar 2026Final vote — text as a whole Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectorsAgainstAbstainedECR
11 Mar 2026Final vote — text as a whole Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European CommissionAgainstAbstainedECR
10 Mar 2026Amendment 61 to paragraph 53 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingAgainstForECR
10 Mar 2026Paragraph 30 — part 2 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingAgainstAbstainedECR
10 Mar 2026Paragraph 13 — part 4 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingAbstainedAgainstECR
24 Feb 2026Amendment 18, adding text after paragraph 21 — part 1 Four years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for UkraineAgainstForECR
12 Feb 2026Recital A — part 3 Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefireForAgainstECR
12 Feb 2026Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 12 Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefireAgainstAbstainedECR
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point ab — part 2 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenForAgainstECR
12 Feb 2026Separate vote on paragraph 17 Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategyAbstainedAgainstECR
Show all 57 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
10 Feb 2026Separate vote on paragraph 28 European Central Bank – annual report 2025AbstainedForECR
10 Feb 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForECR
22 Jan 2026Final vote — text as a whole European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructureAbstainedForECR
21 Jan 2026Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 29 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025AbstainedForECR
21 Jan 2026Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 15 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025AbstainedAgainstECR
21 Jan 2026Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 13 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025AbstainedAgainstECR
20 Jan 2026Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 2 The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companiesAgainstForECR

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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
Waldemar BUDA , ECR · Poland 3.5 %1 6411832736

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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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 · Waldemar BUDA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&mep=99878&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 · Waldemar BUDA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&mep=99878&to=2026-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&mep=99878&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}
}