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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · Tsvetelina PENKOVA

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 752

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

Tsvetelina PENKOVA’s votes against the line, 28

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
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 70 to Article 1, paragraph 1, point 17; Regulation (EU) 2023/956 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Amendment 7, adding text after recital V 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	For	Against	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Paragraph 101 — part 1 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 71 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	For	Against	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Separate vote on paragraph 14 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Separate vote on paragraph 13 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 3 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	For	Against	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU–Mexico Interim Agreement on Trade	Abstained	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)	Abstained	For	S&D
8 Jul 2026	Final vote EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement	Abstained	For	S&D
7 Jul 2026	Amendment 2 to paragraph 1, after point h Recommendation on the changing geopolitical situation in East Asia and the need for closer cooperation with like-minded partners in the region	For	Against	S&D
7 Jul 2026	Amendment 1 to paragraph 1, before point a Recommendation on the changing geopolitical situation in East Asia and the need for closer cooperation with like-minded partners in the region	For	Against	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Recital C — part 2 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Abstained	For	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 5 to citation 4 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Abstained	Against	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 76 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Abstained	Against	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 3 to paragraph 73 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Against	Abstained	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Paragraph 71 — part 1 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Abstained	For	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 38 — part 2 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	For	Abstained	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 38 — part 1 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	For	Abstained	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Paragraph 27 — part 1 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Against	For	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Paragraph 7 — part 2 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Against	For	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 8 to paragraph 7 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	For	Against	S&D
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 7 to paragraph 2 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	For	Abstained	S&D
30 Apr 2026	Amendment 2 to paragraph 5 Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela	Abstained	For	S&D
30 Apr 2026	Amendment 6 to paragraph 2 Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela	Abstained	Against	S&D
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 27, adding text after Article 1 Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sector	For	Against	S&D
29 Apr 2026	Separate vote on paragraph 30 Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council	Against	For	S&D
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 6 to paragraph 30 Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council	For	Against	S&D

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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 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
Tsvetelina PENKOVA , S&D · Bulgaria	2.0 %	1 424	15	9	4	27

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, 03:32 UTC (data stamp 579b2832c723, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&mep=197845&scope=all&to=2026-09-26
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: data version 579b2832c723 (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
Retrieved: 26 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · Tsvetelina PENKOVA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&mep=197845&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 579b2832c723 (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 · Tsvetelina PENKOVA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&mep=197845&scope=all&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&mep=197845&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 579b2832c723 (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}
}