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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 27 Mar 2026 – 27 Sept 2026

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 votes172 All roll calls1 683

Order Highest rate first By name

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

By member, 694

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
Siegfried MUREŞAN , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	0.6 %	157	0	1	0	0
Verena MERTENS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	157	0	1	0	1
Alexandra MEHNERT , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	158	0	1	0	1
Kathleen VAN BREMPT , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	0.6 %	158	1	0	0	1
Loránt VINCZE , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	0.6 %	158	1	0	0	0
Marta TEMIDO , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.6 %	158	1	0	0	0
Arno BAUSEMER , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	159	0	0	1	0
Sérgio HUMBERTO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.6 %	159	1	0	0	1
Bernd LANGE , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	160	1	0	0	1
Billy KELLEHER , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	0.6 %	160	1	0	0	1
Dainius ŽALIMAS , Renew · Lithuania Their votes against the line	0.6 %	160	1	0	0	0
Jonás FERNÁNDEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.6 %	160	1	0	0	0
Leire PAJÍN , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.6 %	160	0	1	0	1
Stefano BONACCINI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	0.6 %	160	1	0	0	0
Iuliu WINKLER , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	0.6 %	161	1	0	0	0
Michael GAHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	161	0	1	0	1
Ondřej KOLÁŘ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	0.6 %	161	0	1	0	0
Alexander JUNGBLUTH , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	162	0	0	1	0
Georgia TRAMACERE , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	0.6 %	162	1	0	0	0
Norbert LINS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	162	0	1	0	1
Oliver SCHENK , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	162	0	1	0	1
Lena SCHILLING , Greens · Austria Their votes against the line	0.6 %	163	0	1	0	1
Liudas MAŽYLIS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	0.6 %	163	0	1	0	0
Rasmus NORDQVIST , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	0.6 %	163	0	1	0	1
Irene TINAGLI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	0.6 %	164	1	0	0	0
Krzysztof ŚMISZEK , S&D · Poland Their votes against the line	0.6 %	165	1	0	0	1
Sandra GÓMEZ LÓPEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.6 %	167	0	1	0	1
Bruno TOBBACK , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	0.6 %	169	1	0	0	1
Robert BIEDROŃ , S&D · Poland Their votes against the line	0.6 %	169	1	0	0	1
Adina VĂLEAN , EPP · Romania	0.0 %	121	0	0	0	0
Aleksandar NIKOLIC , Patriots · France	0.0 %	110	0	0	0	0
Alessandra MORETTI , S&D · Italy	0.0 %	164	0	0	0	0
Alexander SELL , ESN · Germany	0.0 %	159	0	0	0	0
Alexandre VARAUT , Patriots · France	0.0 %	113	0	0	0	0
André ROUGÉ , Patriots · France	0.0 %	126	0	0	0	0
Annalisa CORRADO , S&D · Italy	0.0 %	124	0	0	0	0
Anne-Sophie FRIGOUT , Patriots · France	0.0 %	125	0	0	0	0
Antonella SBERNA , ECR · Italy	0.0 %	132	0	0	0	0
Brando BENIFEI , S&D · Italy	0.0 %	146	0	0	0	0
Camilla LAURETI , S&D · Italy	0.0 %	162	0	0	0	0
Catherine GRISET , Patriots · France	0.0 %	121	0	0	0	0
Daniel BUDA , EPP · Romania	0.0 %	164	0	0	0	0
David MCALLISTER , EPP · Germany	0.0 %	155	0	0	0	0
Dennis RADTKE , EPP · Germany	0.0 %	123	0	0	0	0
Fabrice LEGGERI , Patriots · France	0.0 %	108	0	0	0	0
Francesco VENTOLA , ECR · Italy	0.0 %	111	0	0	0	0
Gheorghe FALCĂ , EPP · Romania	0.0 %	129	0	0	0	0
Gilles PENNELLE , Patriots · France	0.0 %	129	0	0	0	0
Gordan BOSANAC , Greens · Croatia	0.0 %	163	0	0	0	0
Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ , S&D · Spain	0.0 %	162	0	0	0	0

About these figures

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

172 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
53 of 225 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 27 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp e994c83b5003, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=final&to=2026-09-27
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version e994c83b5003 (27 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: 27 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 27 Mar 2026 – 27 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=final&to=2026-09-27 (retrieved 27 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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-2026-09-27,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 27 Mar 2026 – 27 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=final&to=2026-09-27}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=final&to=2026-09-27},
  urldate = {2026-09-27},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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}
}