Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Barbara BONTE

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

Order Highest rate first By name

Showing Barbara BONTE only. Show every member

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

Barbara BONTE’s votes against the line, 18

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 on the motion for a resolution Post-electoral repression in Zambia and the killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya	Abstained	For	Patriots
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean GMB151 x DAS-44406-6	Against	For	Patriots
16 Sept 2026	Final vote Nuclear decommissioning assistance programme of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania for the period 2028-2034	Abstained	For	Patriots
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Acceleration of permit-granting for defence readiness projects (Omnibus V)	Abstained	For	Patriots
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	For	Patriots
15 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sectors	For	Against	Patriots
8 Jul 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision Protection of the environment through criminal law	Abstained	Against	Patriots
17 Jun 2026	Final vote Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)	For	Against	Patriots
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Role of trade in strengthening the EU’s economic security	Against	Abstained	Patriots
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision Measures necessary for the implementation of the Protocol, annexed to the TEU and to the TFEU, on the financial consequences of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and on the Research Fund for Coal and Steel	Abstained	For	Patriots
21 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts	For	Abstained	Patriots
20 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (resolution)	Against	Abstained	Patriots
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement	Abstained	For	Patriots
19 May 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market	Abstained	For	Patriots
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia	Abstained	For	Patriots
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Escalating trafficking and exploitation by criminal groups in Haiti	Against	For	Patriots
29 Apr 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-USA-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement, and EU-Iceland-Norway Ancillary Agreement on the application of the Air Transport Agreement	Abstained	For	Patriots
28 Apr 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Control, transparency and traceability of performance-based instruments	For	Against	Patriots

By member, 1

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
Barbara BONTE , Patriots · Belgium	12.9 %	139	5	10	3	18

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=256881&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 · Barbara BONTE”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256881&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 · Barbara BONTE}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256881&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256881&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}
}