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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Martin SCHIRDEWAN

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 Martin SCHIRDEWAN only. Show every member

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

Martin SCHIRDEWAN’s votes against the line, 16

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 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Bosnia and Herzegovina	For	Abstained	The Left
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	For	Abstained	The Left
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Montenegro	For	Abstained	The Left
20 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The impact of the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins	Against	Abstained	The Left
10 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges	Abstained	For	The Left
17 Dec 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU/Jordan Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation: terms and conditions for the participation of Jordan in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)	Against	For	The Left
26 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Protection of minors online	Abstained	For	The Left
26 Nov 2025	Final vote Collection of statistical information by the European Central Bank	Abstained	For	The Left
26 Nov 2025	Final vote on the provisional agreement Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under the InvestEU Regulation and simplifying reporting requirements	Against	Abstained	The Left
26 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 3/2025: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates	Abstained	For	The Left
10 Sept 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Switzerland Cooperation Agreement: European Satellite Navigation Programmes	Abstained	For	The Left
8 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution)	Abstained	For	The Left
8 Jul 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030	Abstained	For	The Left
7 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on Serbia	For	Abstained	The Left
3 Apr 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European Parliament	For	Abstained	The Left
9 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration	For	Abstained	The Left

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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
Martin SCHIRDEWAN , The Left · Germany	3.5 %	460	1	7	8	6

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?mep=190517&scope=final&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 — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Martin SCHIRDEWAN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=190517&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 · Martin SCHIRDEWAN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=190517&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=190517&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}
}