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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP · Janusz LEWANDOWSKI

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 votes620 All roll calls5 928

Order Highest rate first By name

Showing Janusz LEWANDOWSKI only. Show every member

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

Janusz LEWANDOWSKI’s votes against the line, 13

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	Final vote Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund	Abstained	For	EPP
9 Jul 2026	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishment of the digital euro	Abstained	For	EPP
7 Jul 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Coordination of social security systems	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Türkiye	Abstained	For	EPP
21 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward	Against	For	EPP
11 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole EU enlargement strategy	Abstained	For	EPP
23 Oct 2025	Final vote on motion B10-0464/2025 Specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from low-carbon fuels	Abstained	Against	EPP
9 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum	Abstained	For	EPP
19 Jun 2025	Final vote Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Jun 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine amending the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by road of 29 June 2022	Abstained	For	EPP
8 May 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 87705 × MON 87708 × MON 89788	For	Against	EPP
8 May 2025	Final vote Suspending certain parts of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the European Union	Abstained	For	EPP
3 Apr 2025	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Granting equivalence with EU requirements to Moldova and Ukraine as regards field inspections and production of seed	Against	For	EPP

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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 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
Janusz LEWANDOWSKI , EPP · Poland	2.6 %	495	3	10	0	8

About these figures

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

620 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
174 of 794 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 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=23781&scope=final&to=2026-09-25
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: data version f37e5638cded (25 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: 25 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP · Janusz LEWANDOWSKI”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=23781&scope=final&to=2026-09-25 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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-2026-09-25,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP · Janusz LEWANDOWSKI}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=23781&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=23781&scope=final&to=2026-09-25},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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}
}