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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · EPP

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 752

Order Highest rate first By name

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

By member, 186

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).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
Branko GRIMS changed group , No group · Slovenia in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line	29.0 %	1 025	235	58	4	126
Miriam LEXMANN , EPP · Slovakia Their votes against the line	27.2 %	1 540	249	166	4	0
Christophe GOMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	24.7 %	1 485	294	71	2	198
Alice TEODORESCU MÅWE , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	20.8 %	1 464	249	52	3	0
Isabelle LE CALLENNEC , EPP · France Their votes against the line	19.2 %	1 551	127	168	3	184
François-Xavier BELLAMY , EPP · France Their votes against the line	18.6 %	1 443	200	64	4	194
Nadine MORANO , EPP · France Their votes against the line	18.4 %	1 564	223	62	2	218
Henrik DAHL , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line	17.4 %	1 671	240	44	6	0
Milan ZVER , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	16.5 %	1 565	217	40	2	188
Zala ČERNILEC TOMAŠIČ , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	16.5 %	1 352	198	25	0	179
Manuela RIPA , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	15.1 %	1 596	199	38	4	0
Céline IMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	14.1 %	1 571	152	69	1	207
Tomislav SOKOL , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	13.5 %	1 384	163	21	3	36
Ilia LAZAROV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	12.1 %	1 458	121	50	5	0
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	12.0 %	1 475	158	15	4	16
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line	11.1 %	1 672	142	41	2	0
Radan KANEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	11.0 %	1 115	62	57	4	0
Gabriella GERZSENYI , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	9.8 %	489	20	27	1	47
Luděk NIEDERMAYER , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	9.5 %	1 633	63	88	4	32
Jan FARSKÝ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	9.4 %	1 650	96	55	4	117
Jörgen WARBORN , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	9.0 %	1 485	117	16	1	130
Danuše NERUDOVÁ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	8.8 %	1 580	86	50	3	117
Jessica POLFJÄRD , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	8.7 %	1 603	125	14	1	139
Kinga KOLLÁR , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	8.7 %	1 167	42	58	1	94
Arba KOKALARI , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	8.6 %	1 668	128	15	1	140
Massimiliano SALINI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	8.4 %	1 677	116	23	2	35
Tomas TOBÉ , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	8.4 %	1 670	124	15	1	136
Romana TOMC , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	8.2 %	1 631	112	20	1	96
Csaba BOGDÁN , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	8.1 %	778	22	41	0	44
Ondřej KOLÁŘ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	7.9 %	1 612	55	70	3	32
András Tivadar KULJA , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	7.8 %	1 282	40	58	2	95
Loucas FOURLAS , EPP · Cyprus Their votes against the line	7.7 %	1 264	61	36	0	70
Dóra DÁVID , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	7.4 %	1 466	44	62	2	106
Eszter LAKOS , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	7.2 %	1 232	34	54	1	85
Emil RADEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	7.1 %	1 393	53	46	0	59
Matej TONIN , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	7.1 %	1 661	90	26	2	0
Nikolina BRNJAC , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	7.1 %	859	51	8	2	36
Adam JARUBAS , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	7.0 %	1 279	55	35	0	75
Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	6.9 %	900	35	27	0	57
Pascal ARIMONT , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	6.9 %	1 641	70	41	2	0
Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	6.8 %	1 168	58	22	0	55
Davor Ivo STIER , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	6.5 %	1 221	53	25	1	49
Krzysztof HETMAN , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.4 %	1 661	70	36	1	75
Hanna GRONKIEWICZ-WALTZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.3 %	1 543	64	32	1	33
Maria WALSH , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	1 253	68	9	1	55
Jacek PROTAS , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	1 674	70	33	1	66
Bartłomiej SIENKIEWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	1 666	88	12	3	53
Viktor WEISZ , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	6.1 %	798	19	30	0	48
Salvatore DE MEO , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	6.0 %	1 561	45	47	1	39
Jagna MARCZUŁAJTIS-WALCZAK , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.9 %	1 610	78	15	2	67

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

1 752 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 26 Sept 2026, 03:26 UTC (data stamp 7885fc92a831, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-26
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version 7885fc92a831 (26 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 · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · EPP”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-26 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 7885fc92a831 (26 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · EPP}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-26},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 7885fc92a831 (26 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}
}