Analysis
Votes against the group’s line
Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Daniel ATTARD
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?
Showing Daniel ATTARD only. Show every member
Daniel ATTARD’s votes against the line, 12
Every vote in the selection where the member’s position differed from their group’s clear line, newest first.
| Date | Vote | Position | Clear line | Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Abstained | For | S&D |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Final vote on the provisional agreement Defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for the defence industry (Omnibus V) | Abstained | For | S&D |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Final vote on the provisional agreement Acceleration of permit-granting for defence readiness projects (Omnibus V) | Abstained | For | S&D |
| 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 | S&D |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure | Abstained | For | S&D |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Final vote Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund | Abstained | For | S&D |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Final vote Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures | Abstained | For | S&D |
| 9 Jul 2026 | Final vote on the motion for a resolution Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness | Abstained | For | S&D |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Ukraine | Against | For | S&D |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Final vote — text as a whole A coherent tax framework for the EU’s financial sector | Abstained | For | S&D |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Final vote on the provisional agreement Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) | For | Against | S&D |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) | For | Against | S&D |
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.
| Member | Against the line | Clear-line votes | Opposite | Abstained | Other | With own party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel ATTARD , S&D · Malta | 8.3 % | 144 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 12 |
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).
Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Data source
- 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
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Daniel ATTARD”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256934&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.
BibTeX
@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 · Daniel ATTARD}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256934&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256934&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}
}