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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Vangelis MEIMARAKIS

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 votes185All roll calls1 755
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Vangelis MEIMARAKIS only. Show every member

Vangelis MEIMARAKIS’s votes against the line, 63

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
16 Sept 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 94313ForAgainstEPP
16 Sept 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean GMB151 x DAS-44406-6ForAgainstEPP
16 Sept 2026Amendment 86 to Article 9, paragraph 2 Establishing the Single Market and Customs Programme for the period 2028-2034ForAgainstEPP
15 Sept 2026Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 12 Implementation of the Council Recommendation on a Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth GuaranteeForAgainstEPP
15 Sept 2026Amendment 86 to paragraph 115 Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldForAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2026Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 22 The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equalityForAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2026Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 1 The impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cypriot women and girls, and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equalityForAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2026Amendment 7, adding text after recital V 2025 Commission report on UkraineAbstainedAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2026Amendment 1, adding text after recital M 2025 Commission report on UkraineAbstainedAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2026Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 31 2025 Commission report on UkraineAbstainedAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2026Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 31 2025 Commission report on UkraineAbstainedAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2026Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 31 2025 Commission report on UkraineAbstainedAgainstEPP
7 Jul 2026Final vote — text as a whole A coherent tax framework for the EU’s financial sectorAgainstForEPP
7 Jul 2026Amendment 2 to paragraph 1, after point h Recommendation on the changing geopolitical situation in East Asia and the need for closer cooperation with like-minded partners in the regionForAgainstEPP
7 Jul 2026Amendment 9 to paragraph 21 Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025ForAgainstEPP
7 Jul 2026Amendment 3, adding text before paragraph 1 — part 1 Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025AbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on KosovoAbstainedForEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 4 to paragraph 6 2025 Commission report on KosovoForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAbstainedForEPP
17 Jun 2026Recital C — part 2 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2026Recital C — part 1 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2026Paragraph 71 — part 2 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2026Paragraph 27 — part 2 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2026Paragraph 27 — part 1 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2026Paragraph 9 — part 2 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAbstainedForEPP
17 Jun 2026Paragraph 8 — part 2 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAbstainedForEPP
17 Jun 2026Paragraph 7 — part 2 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaAgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 8 to paragraph 7 2025 Commission report on North MacedoniaForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 8 to paragraph 11 2025 Commission report on AlbaniaForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 40, adding text after paragraph 46 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 49, adding text after paragraph 43 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 48, adding text after paragraph 43 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 32 to paragraph 40 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 30 to paragraph 40 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 29 to paragraph 39 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 39, adding text after paragraph 37 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 37, adding text after paragraph 37 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 36, adding text after paragraph 35 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 4 to paragraph 22 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeForAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 30, adding text after Recital 68 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 1 to recital 34 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendments 20 + 28 (voted as one), adding text after Recital 25 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 27, adding text after Recital 15 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 37 to Annex II, after point 2 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendments 15 + 16 + 24 + 36 (voted as one), adding text after Article 37 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 9 to Article 27, paragraph 1, point c Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendments 23 + 35 (voted as one), adding text after Article 24 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 34, adding text after Article 11 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendments 22 + 33 (voted as one) to Article 10, after paragraph 1 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 32 to Article 10, paragraph 1 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
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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 Jun 2026Amendment 8 to Article 9, paragraph 1, subparagraph 2, after point d Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 7 to Article 7, paragraph 2, after point d Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendment 6 to Article 6, paragraph 3, after point d Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
17 Jun 2026Amendments 21 + 31 (voted as one), adding text after Article 4 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAbstainedAgainstEPP
20 May 2026Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 14 Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU responseForAgainstEPP
20 May 2026Amendment 65 to paragraph 1, point ap Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General AssemblyForAgainstEPP
20 May 2026Amendments 22 + 36 (voted as one) to paragraph 1, point ad Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General AssemblyAbstainedAgainstEPP
29 Apr 2026Separate vote on paragraph 69 Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025ForAgainstEPP
29 Apr 2026Paragraph 48 — part 2 Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025ForAgainstEPP
28 Apr 2026Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 7 Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EUAbstainedForEPP
28 Apr 2026Amendment 44, adding text after paragraph 26 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section IIIForAgainstEPP
28 Apr 2026Amendment 70 to paragraph 26 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section IIIForAgainstEPP
26 Mar 2026Amendment 90 to Article 1 Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)ForAgainstEPP

By member, 1

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
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS , EPP · Greece 5.0 %1 2613528058

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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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 · Vangelis MEIMARAKIS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197662&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 · Vangelis MEIMARAKIS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197662&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=197662&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}
}