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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP

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

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

By member, 196

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
Michał SZCZERBA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.9 %	5 501	307	66	4	258
Michalis HADJIPANTELA , EPP · Cyprus Their votes against the line	6.8 %	4 924	208	127	2	226
Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	6.8 %	5 103	257	85	6	0
Jacek PROTAS , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.8 %	5 366	261	103	1	235
Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.8 %	5 311	277	78	4	255
Marta WCISŁO , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.7 %	5 378	289	70	4	250
Jagna MARCZUŁAJTIS-WALCZAK , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.6 %	5 279	287	61	2	277
Emil RADEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	6.3 %	4 149	149	111	1	146
Viktor WEISZ , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	6.1 %	798	19	30	0	48
Regina DOHERTY , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.1 %	5 108	183	126	3	245
Davor Ivo STIER , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	6.1 %	4 827	221	71	2	171
Łukasz KOHUT , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.1 %	5 464	250	81	1	0
Ewa KOPACZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.0 %	5 571	267	68	1	290
Mirosława NYKIEL , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.0 %	5 042	235	64	1	249
Borys BUDKA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.9 %	4 760	205	74	2	213
Salvatore DE MEO , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	5.9 %	5 024	171	122	1	156
Janusz LEWANDOWSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.8 %	4 718	100	173	2	108
Seán KELLY , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	5.8 %	5 560	231	89	4	281
Karlo RESSLER , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	5.8 %	4 740	173	98	2	145
Bartłomiej SIENKIEWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.7 %	5 512	249	60	3	223
Michał WAWRYKIEWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.6 %	5 123	233	53	2	0
Sunčana GLAVAK , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	5.6 %	5 257	150	139	5	143
Magdalena ADAMOWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.6 %	5 257	234	59	0	0
Alexander BERNHUBER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	5.5 %	4 833	155	110	3	142
Krzysztof BREJZA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.5 %	5 211	227	55	2	242
Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	5.4 %	3 729	146	53	4	187
Nikolina BRNJAC , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	5.4 %	3 998	178	37	2	125
Peter AGIUS , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line	5.4 %	4 534	124	121	1	182
David CASA , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line	5.3 %	5 442	187	101	2	182
Andrzej HALICKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.3 %	5 164	224	49	1	234
Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.3 %	5 572	197	96	1	237
Andrzej BUŁA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.1 %	5 177	194	71	0	235
Fredis BELERIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	5.1 %	4 477	163	62	4	197
Iuliu WINKLER , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	5.1 %	5 201	178	79	9	103
Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	5.0 %	4 354	170	48	1	136
Flavio TOSI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	5.0 %	5 025	190	58	1	144
Željana ZOVKO , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	4.9 %	4 487	194	21	3	105
Wouter BEKE , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	4.8 %	5 448	189	66	7	185
Eva MAYDELL , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 485	93	24	1	82
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.7 %	4 359	142	60	4	189
Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.6 %	5 190	161	73	5	193
Reinhold LOPATKA , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.6 %	5 217	104	134	1	185
Andrey NOVAKOV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.5 %	5 112	140	87	2	179
Alma EZCURRA ALMANSA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.5 %	1 988	64	24	1	81
Eleonora MELETI , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.5 %	4 422	140	53	4	183
Letizia MORATTI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	4.4 %	4 027	152	27	0	114
Lukas MANDL , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.4 %	5 051	129	93	2	147
Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.4 %	5 437	161	77	3	182
Dimitris TSIODRAS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.4 %	5 083	157	61	5	212
Georgios AFTIAS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.4 %	4 617	138	59	4	191

About these figures

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

5 928 votes considered (all roll-call 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 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 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&scope=all&to=2026-09-25
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&scope=all&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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&scope=all&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}
}