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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Nela RIEHL

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 Nela RIEHL only. Show every member

Nela RIEHL’s votes against the line, 36

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 maize MON 87460AgainstForGreens
16 Sept 2026Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Switzerland Agreement on the transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crimeAbstainedAgainstGreens
15 Sept 2026Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 34 Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldForAgainstGreens
8 Jul 2026Amendment 35, adding text after paragraph 32 — part 4 2025 Commission report on UkraineForAgainstGreens
8 Jul 2026Amendment 55, adding text after paragraph 26 2025 Commission report on UkraineForAgainstGreens
8 Jul 2026Amendment 39 to paragraph 59 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)AgainstForGreens
8 Jul 2026Amendment 26 to paragraph 38 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)AbstainedForGreens
7 Jul 2026Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 50 Competition policy – annual report 2025AbstainedForGreens
7 Jul 2026Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 46 Competition policy – annual report 2025AbstainedForGreens
7 Jul 2026Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 41 Competition policy – annual report 2025AgainstForGreens
7 Jul 2026Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 13 Competition policy – annual report 2025AgainstForGreens
7 Jul 2026Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 3 Competition policy – annual report 2025AgainstAbstainedGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 49 2025 Commission report on TürkiyeAbstainedAgainstGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 30, adding text after Recital 68 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 1 to recital 34 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendments 20 + 28 (voted as one), adding text after Recital 25 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 19, adding text after Recital 18 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 27, adding text after Recital 15 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendments 18 + 26 (voted as one), adding text after Recital 1 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 37 to Annex II, after point 2 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
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 feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 9 to Article 27, paragraph 1, point c Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendments 23 + 35 (voted as one), adding text after Article 24 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 34, adding text after Article 11 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
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 feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 32 to Article 10, paragraph 1 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
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 feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 7 to Article 7, paragraph 2, after point d Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendment 6 to Article 6, paragraph 3, after point d Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendments 21 + 31 (voted as one), adding text after Article 4 Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
17 Jun 2026Amendments 17 + 25 (voted as one) Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feedAgainstForGreens
29 Apr 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 94637AgainstForGreens
29 Apr 2026Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Norway Agreement on transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crimeAbstainedAgainstGreens
29 Apr 2026Final 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 crimeAbstainedAgainstGreens
29 Apr 2026Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 15 — part 2 Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of AuditorsForAgainstGreens
28 Apr 2026Amendment 46, adding text after paragraph 1 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section IIIAbstainedForGreens

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
Nela RIEHL , Greens · Germany 2.1 %1 714278131

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 · Nela RIEHL”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256964&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 — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Nela RIEHL}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256964&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256964&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}
}