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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Ivan DAVID

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 votes185 All roll calls1 755

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

Ivan DAVID’s votes against the line, 25

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
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Strengthening global health resilience in partner countries	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Post-electoral repression in Zambia and the killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya	Abstained	For	ESN
16 Sept 2026	Final vote Nuclear decommissioning assistance programme of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania for the period 2028-2034	Abstained	For	ESN
15 Sept 2026	Final vote Temporary trade-liberalisation measures applicable to Armenian products	Abstained	For	ESN
15 Sept 2026	Final vote Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures	Against	Abstained	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equality	For	Against	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU–Mexico Interim Agreement on Trade	Abstained	For	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)	Abstained	For	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Trajectory to decrease the contribution of high indirect land-use change-risk biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels to renewable energy targets	Abstained	For	ESN
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and risks to the security of supply of medicines	Against	For	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation on promoting transnational governance on water in the interests of conflict prevention and peace	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF): access to VAT information at Union level	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products	For	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)	For	Against	ESN
19 May 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market	Against	Abstained	ESN
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela	Against	For	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Norway Agreement on transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime	Abstained	For	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Iceland agreement on transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute terrorist offences and serious crime	Abstained	For	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote European Chemicals Agency and amending regulations	For	Against	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products	For	Abstained	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation	Abstained	Against	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/007 BE/Casa - Belgium	Abstained	Against	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/005 AT/KTM - Austria	Abstained	Against	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods	Against	Abstained	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America	Against	Abstained	ESN

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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 100 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
Ivan DAVID , ESN · Czechia	15.9 %	157	6	14	5	0

About these figures

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

185 votes considered (final 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 100 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&mep=197556&scope=final&to=2026-09-25
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Ivan DAVID”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197556&scope=final&to=2026-09-25 (retrieved 25 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-2026-09-25,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Ivan DAVID}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197556&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197556&scope=final&to=2026-09-25},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  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}
}