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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · EPP

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

25 Mar 2026 – today

Votes Final votes185 All roll calls1 755

Order Highest rate first By name

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

By member, 186

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
Branko GRIMS changed group , No group · Slovenia in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line	28.9 %	1 028	235	58	4	126
Miriam LEXMANN , EPP · Slovakia Their votes against the line	27.2 %	1 543	249	166	4	0
Christophe GOMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	24.7 %	1 485	294	71	2	198
Alice TEODORESCU MÅWE , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	20.7 %	1 467	249	52	3	0
Isabelle LE CALLENNEC , EPP · France Their votes against the line	19.2 %	1 554	127	169	3	184
François-Xavier BELLAMY , EPP · France Their votes against the line	18.5 %	1 446	200	64	4	194
Nadine MORANO , EPP · France Their votes against the line	18.4 %	1 564	223	62	2	218
Henrik DAHL , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line	17.4 %	1 671	240	44	6	0
Milan ZVER , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	16.5 %	1 565	217	40	2	188
Zala ČERNILEC TOMAŠIČ , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	16.5 %	1 355	198	25	0	179
Manuela RIPA , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	15.1 %	1 599	199	38	4	0
Céline IMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	14.1 %	1 571	152	69	1	207
Tomislav SOKOL , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	13.5 %	1 387	163	21	3	36
Ilia LAZAROV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	12.0 %	1 461	121	50	5	0
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	12.0 %	1 477	158	15	4	16
Radan KANEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	11.1 %	1 118	63	57	4	0
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line	11.0 %	1 675	142	41	2	0
Gabriella GERZSENYI , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	9.8 %	489	20	27	1	47
Luděk NIEDERMAYER , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	9.5 %	1 636	63	88	4	32
Jan FARSKÝ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	9.4 %	1 653	96	55	4	117
Jörgen WARBORN , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	9.0 %	1 485	117	16	1	130
Danuše NERUDOVÁ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	8.8 %	1 583	86	50	3	117
Jessica POLFJÄRD , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	8.7 %	1 606	125	14	1	139
Kinga KOLLÁR , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	8.6 %	1 170	42	58	1	94
Arba KOKALARI , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	8.6 %	1 671	128	15	1	140
Massimiliano SALINI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	8.4 %	1 680	116	23	2	35
Tomas TOBÉ , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	8.4 %	1 673	124	15	1	136
Romana TOMC , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	8.1 %	1 634	112	20	1	96
Csaba BOGDÁN , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	8.1 %	778	22	41	0	44
Ondřej KOLÁŘ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	7.9 %	1 615	55	70	3	32
András Tivadar KULJA , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	7.8 %	1 282	40	58	2	95
Loucas FOURLAS , EPP · Cyprus Their votes against the line	7.7 %	1 267	61	36	0	70
Dóra DÁVID , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	7.4 %	1 469	45	62	2	106
Eszter LAKOS , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	7.2 %	1 235	34	54	1	85
Nikolina BRNJAC , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	7.1 %	859	51	8	2	36
Emil RADEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	7.1 %	1 396	53	46	0	59
Matej TONIN , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	7.1 %	1 664	90	26	2	0
Adam JARUBAS , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	7.0 %	1 279	55	35	0	75
Pascal ARIMONT , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	6.9 %	1 644	70	41	2	0
Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	6.9 %	903	35	27	0	57
Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	6.8 %	1 171	58	22	0	55
Davor Ivo STIER , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	6.5 %	1 224	53	25	1	49
Krzysztof HETMAN , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.4 %	1 664	70	36	1	75
Hanna GRONKIEWICZ-WALTZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.3 %	1 543	64	32	1	33
Maria WALSH , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	1 256	68	9	1	55
Jacek PROTAS , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	1 677	70	33	1	66
Bartłomiej SIENKIEWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	1 669	88	12	3	53
Viktor WEISZ , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	6.1 %	798	19	30	0	48
Salvatore DE MEO , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	5.9 %	1 564	45	47	1	39
Jagna MARCZUŁAJTIS-WALCZAK , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.9 %	1 613	78	15	2	67

About these figures

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

1 755 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
62 of 247 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 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-26
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version f37e5638cded (25 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 · 25 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · EPP”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-26 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · EPP}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-26},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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}
}