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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Petras GRAŽULIS

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 %)

Petras GRAŽULIS’s votes against the line, 33

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 Impact of social media and the online environment on young people	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro	Abstained	For	ESN
16 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure	For	Against	ESN
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Acceleration of permit-granting for defence readiness projects (Omnibus V)	Abstained	Against	ESN
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and simplification of security and defence procurement (Omnibus V)	Abstained	Against	ESN
15 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the Council Recommendation on a Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee	For	Against	ESN
15 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure	For	Against	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 — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Serbia	For	Against	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Moldova	For	Against	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	For	Against	ESN
7 Jul 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Application EGF/2026/000 TA 2026 - Technical assistance at the initiative of the Commission	Abstained	Against	ESN
7 Jul 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Coordination of social security systems	For	Abstained	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Kosovo	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Bosnia and Herzegovina	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Albania	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
20 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly	Abstained	Against	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Canada Agreement laying down the conditions for the participation of Canadian legal entities and products originating in Canada to procurement under the SAFE Instrument	For	Against	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Lebanon Agreement on cooperation between Eurojust and the authorities of Lebanon competent for judicial cooperation in criminal matters	For	Abstained	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision United Nations Convention against Cybercrime	For	Abstained	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement	For	Abstained	ESN
19 May 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Screening of foreign investments in the Union	Abstained	Against	ESN
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia	For	Against	ESN
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine	For	Against	ESN
30 Apr 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision Convention Establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine	For	Against	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty - Belgium	Abstained	Against	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	Abstained	Against	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	For	Against	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
Petras GRAŽULIS , ESN · Lithuania	22.9 %	144	12	17	4	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=256808&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 · Petras GRAŽULIS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256808&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 · Petras GRAŽULIS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256808&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256808&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}
}