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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 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 Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes620All roll calls5 928
Order Highest rate firstBy name

By member, 196

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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Christophe GOMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line19.0 %5214455062
Sander SMIT changed group , ECR · Netherlands in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line16.1 %4982057373
Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group , ECR · Netherlands in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line15.6 %5382160373
Nadine MORANO , EPP · France Their votes against the line15.5 %5302260062
Isabelle LE CALLENNEC , EPP · France Their votes against the line15.3 %5231268062
Branko GRIMS changed group , No group · Slovenia in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line14.5 %4702741024
Gabriella GERZSENYI , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line13.8 %2981427039
Kinga KOLLÁR , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line13.6 %3691931044
Alice TEODORESCU MÅWE , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line13.4 %493561000
Zoltán TARR , EPP · Hungary · left on 8 May 2026 Their votes against the line13.4 %2171118026
François-Xavier BELLAMY , EPP · France Their votes against the line12.7 %5342048061
Céline IMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line12.7 %5431851063
Eszter LAKOS , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line11.2 %3921430042
Henrik DAHL , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line11.1 %559372500
Laurent CASTILLO changed group , Patriots · France in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line11.0 %456123800
Dóra DÁVID , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line10.1 %4361529044
András Tivadar KULJA , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line10.0 %4101427040
Peter AGIUS , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line9.4 %458835036
Manuela RIPA , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line9.4 %501252200
Miriam LEXMANN , EPP · Slovakia Their votes against the line9.3 %506192800
David CASA , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line9.3 %5501239036
Milan ZVER , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line8.3 %5311925030
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line7.1 %563301000
Zala ČERNILEC TOMAŠIČ , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line6.8 %5291719032
Ilia LAZAROV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line6.3 %473131700
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line6.1 %47721800
Arba KOKALARI , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line5.8 %532256030
Tomas TOBÉ , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line5.6 %569257032
Jessica POLFJÄRD , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line5.6 %570257032
Jörgen WARBORN , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line5.5 %547237030
Massimiliano SALINI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line5.1 %566131607
Hanna GRONKIEWICZ-WALTZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line5.1 %450167011
Reinhold LOPATKA , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line5.0 %5431413024
Alexander BERNHUBER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line5.0 %5251610019
Loránt VINCZE , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line4.8 %505915012
Radan KANEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line4.7 %42521800
Pascal ARIMONT , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line4.6 %541141100
Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line4.5 %375107013
Loucas FOURLAS , EPP · Cyprus Their votes against the line4.5 %399810016
Dirk GOTINK , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line4.3 %554101400
Angelika WINZIG , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line4.2 %5421310018
Lukas MANDL , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line4.2 %520139020
Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line4.2 %548158015
Michalis HADJIPANTELA , EPP · Cyprus Their votes against the line4.1 %514912016
Romana TOMC , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line4.1 %5641310022
Sophia KIRCHER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line4.0 %496911020
Jagna MARCZUŁAJTIS-WALCZAK , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line3.9 %535156014
Kamila GASIUK-PIHOWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line3.9 %568166014
Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line3.7 %572714012
Nicolás PASCUAL DE LA PARTE , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line3.6 %521118011

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