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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 28 Mar 2026 – 28 Sept 2026 · Pascal CANFIN

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 votes172 All roll calls1 683

Order Highest rate first By name

Showing Pascal CANFIN only. Show every member

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

Pascal CANFIN’s votes against the line, 30

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	Amendment 61, adding text after recital C The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders	For	Against	Renew
17 Sept 2026	Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 4 The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders	For	Against	Renew
17 Sept 2026	Amendment 13 to recital C — part 2 Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers	For	Against	Renew
17 Sept 2026	Amendment 13 to recital C — part 1 Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers	For	Against	Renew
17 Sept 2026	Amendment 14 to paragraph 2 — part 2 Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers	For	Against	Renew
17 Sept 2026	Amendment 14 to paragraph 2 — part 1 Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers	For	Against	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Paragraph 5 — part 5 The threat of war crimes, the escalating violations of international humanitarian law and the human rights situation in El-Obeid, Sudan	Abstained	For	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendment 3 to recital 11 Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive	Against	For	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendment 29 to Article 11 Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive	Against	For	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendment 5 to Article 3, paragraph 1, point a, after point 1 Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive	Against	For	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendments 26 + 31 + 6 + 21 (voted as one) to Article 3, paragraph 1, point a — part 3 Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive	Against	For	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendments 26 + 31 + 4 (voted as one) to Article 3, paragraph 1, point a — part 2 Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive	Against	For	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendments 26 + 31 + 4 (voted as one) to Article 3, paragraph 1, point a — part 1 Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive	Against	For	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendment 30 to Article 1, after paragraph 2 Temporary derogation from the ePrivacy directive	Against	For	Renew
8 Jul 2026	Paragraph 101 — part 1 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Abstained	For	Renew
8 Jul 2026	Separate vote on recital G EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)	Against	For	Renew
7 Jul 2026	Amendment 6 to paragraph 35 A coherent tax framework for the EU’s financial sector	For	Against	Renew
7 Jul 2026	Amendment 4 to paragraph 33 A coherent tax framework for the EU’s financial sector	For	Against	Renew
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 2 to recital S Recommendation on promoting transnational governance on water in the interests of conflict prevention and peace	Abstained	Against	Renew
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 31 to paragraph 40 2025 Commission report on Türkiye	Abstained	For	Renew
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)	Abstained	For	Renew
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America	Against	For	Renew
30 Apr 2026	Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 4 Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine	Against	Abstained	Renew
30 Apr 2026	Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 Enforcement of the Digital Markets Act	Abstained	Against	Renew
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?	Against	For	Renew
30 Apr 2026	Paragraph 6 — part 2 Escalating trafficking and exploitation by criminal groups in Haiti	Against	For	Renew
29 Apr 2026	Recital BC — part 1 Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025	Against	For	Renew
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 8 Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sector	Abstained	For	Renew
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 47 Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission	For	Against	Renew
28 Apr 2026	Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 7 Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU	For	Against	Renew

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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
Pascal CANFIN , Renew · France	2.1 %	1 459	22	7	1	17

About these figures

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

1 683 votes considered (all roll-call 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 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 28 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp 5a7357168c2a, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-28&mep=96711&scope=all&to=2026-09-28
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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 · 28 Mar 2026 – 28 Sept 2026 · Pascal CANFIN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-28&mep=96711&scope=all&to=2026-09-28 (retrieved 28 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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-2026-09-28,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 28 Mar 2026 – 28 Sept 2026 · Pascal CANFIN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-28&mep=96711&scope=all&to=2026-09-28}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-28&mep=96711&scope=all&to=2026-09-28},
  urldate = {2026-09-28},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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}
}