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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · Petar VOLGIN

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

Showing Petar VOLGIN only. Show every member

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

Petar VOLGIN’s votes against the line, 23

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 — text as a whole An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro	Against	For	ESN
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Deteriorating situation of media freedom and freedom of expression in Hong Kong following the recent arrest of bookseller Leticia Wong and the convictions of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung	Against	Abstained	ESN
16 Sept 2026	Final vote Nuclear decommissioning assistance programme of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania for the period 2028-2034	Against	For	ESN
15 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the Council Recommendation on a Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee	For	Against	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Serbia	Abstained	Against	ESN
7 Jul 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Coordination of social security systems	For	Abstained	ESN
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba	Against	Abstained	ESN
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Deteriorating situation of political prisoners in Belarus, in particular the case of Aliaksandra Pulinovich	Against	Abstained	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Kosovo	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Bosnia and Herzegovina	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Albania	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Montenegro	Abstained	Against	ESN
21 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The need to reduce work-related fatalities	For	Abstained	ESN
21 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap	Abstained	Against	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision United Nations Convention against Cybercrime	Against	Abstained	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement	For	Abstained	ESN
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela	Abstained	For	ESN
28 Apr 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Enhancing connectivity, preserving cultural heritage and driving local excellence in European tourism – destination management and regional tourism growth	For	Abstained	ESN
28 Apr 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	Against	Abstained	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods	Against	Abstained	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America	Against	Abstained	ESN

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
Petar VOLGIN , ESN · Bulgaria	13.2 %	174	3	9	11	11

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 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=257260&scope=final&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
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · Petar VOLGIN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&mep=257260&scope=final&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 — Final votes · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · Petar VOLGIN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&mep=257260&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&mep=257260&scope=final&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}
}