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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Dragoş BENEA

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 votes185 All roll calls1 755

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

Dragoş BENEA’s votes against the line, 35

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 motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize MON 87460	Against	For	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 94313	Against	For	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean GMB151 x DAS-44406-6	Against	For	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 19 Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions	Abstained	Against	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 19 Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions	Abstained	Against	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 6 Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions	For	Against	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 64 Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure	For	Against	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 64 Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure	For	Against	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Amendment 9 to paragraph 64 Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure	For	Against	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Amendment 8 to paragraph 56 Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure	For	Against	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Amendment 7 to paragraph 35 Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure	For	Against	S&D
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 40 The EU Youth Strategy 2019–2027	Abstained	Against	S&D
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 2 to paragraph 75 Implementation of the Council Recommendation on a Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee	Against	For	S&D
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 110 — part 1 Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield	For	Against	S&D
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 3 Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure	Abstained	Against	S&D
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 6, adding text after Article 1; Decision (EU) 2015/1814 Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances	Against	For	S&D
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 5 Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances	Against	For	S&D
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 86 to Article 7 Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund	For	Against	S&D
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 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 measures	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP202216 x NK603 x DAS-40278-9 and its sub-combinations DP 202216 x NK603, DP202216 x DAS-40278-9	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize NK603 × T25	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified soybean MON 87705	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Amendment 5, adding text after recital I The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equality	Abstained	For	S&D
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	For	Against	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Amendment 8 to recital AJ Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries	Abstained	Against	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Separate vote on recital U Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries	Abstained	For	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 33 Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries	For	Against	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 25 Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries	Abstained	Against	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 18 Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries	For	Against	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Amendment 10 to paragraph 15 Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries	For	Against	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 1 Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries	For	Against	S&D
20 May 2026	Amendment 28 to paragraph 1, point ap Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly	Against	For	S&D
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 63 Discharge 2024: European Public Prosecutor’s Office	Abstained	Against	S&D
28 Apr 2026	Amendment 79, adding text after paragraph 107 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034	For	Against	S&D
26 Mar 2026	Amendment 60 to Article 1 — part 4 Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)	Against	For	S&D

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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
Dragoş BENEA , S&D · Romania	3.9 %	893	26	9	0	27

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&mep=197658&scope=all&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
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Dragoş BENEA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197658&scope=all&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 — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Dragoş BENEA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197658&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197658&scope=all&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}
}