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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP · Sophia KIRCHER

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

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Showing Sophia KIRCHER only. Show every member

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

Sophia KIRCHER’s votes against the line, 20

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
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 94313	For	Against	EPP
15 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Global role of the euro	Abstained	For	EPP
15 Sept 2026	Final vote Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund	Abstained	For	EPP
15 Sept 2026	Final vote Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures	Abstained	For	EPP
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034	Abstained	For	EPP
12 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women	Abstained	For	EPP
20 Jan 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Just transition directive in the world of work: ensuring the creation of jobs and revitalising local economies	Against	For	EPP
17 Dec 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Simplification of the content and presentation of information to be disclosed concerning environmentally sustainable activities and simplification of certain technical screening criteria for determining whether economic activities cause no significant harm to environmental objectives	Abstained	Against	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified cotton MON 88913	For	Against	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize DAS1131	For	Against	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Decision to maintain the action Final vote Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposal	For	Against	EPP
9 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Second World Summit for Social Development	Against	For	EPP
7 Oct 2025	Final vote Extension of the derogation for heavy-duty vehicles with zero emissions	Against	For	EPP
8 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Security of energy supply in the EU	Against	For	EPP
12 Mar 2025	Final vote — text as a whole European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025	Abstained	For	EPP
11 Mar 2025	Final vote — text as a whole European Social Fund Plus post-2027	Against	For	EPP
28 Nov 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia	Abstained	For	EPP
27 Nov 2024	Joint text Final vote 2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text	Abstained	For	EPP
14 Nov 2024	Final vote — text as a whole UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29)	Abstained	For	EPP
19 Sept 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States	Abstained	For	EPP

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
Sophia KIRCHER , EPP · Austria	4.0 %	496	9	11	0	20

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=256831&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 · Sophia KIRCHER”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=256831&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 · Sophia KIRCHER}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=256831&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=256831&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}
}