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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Tomasz FROELICH

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

Tomasz FROELICH’s votes against the line, 14

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 An EU cardiovascular diseases strategy	Abstained	Against	ESN
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-UK Agreement regarding cooperation on the application of their respective competition laws	For	Abstained	ESN
15 Sept 2026	Final vote Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures	Against	Abstained	ESN
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba	For	Abstained	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Lebanon Agreement on cooperation between Eurojust and the authorities of Lebanon competent for judicial cooperation in criminal matters	For	Abstained	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision United Nations Convention against Cybercrime	For	Abstained	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products	For	Abstained	ESN
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture	Abstained	Against	ESN
10 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Fisheries management approaches for safeguarding sensitive species, tackling invasive species and benefiting local economies	For	Abstained	ESN
12 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Targeted expulsions of foreign journalists and foreign Christians in Türkiye under national security pretexts	Abstained	For	ESN
10 Sept 2025	Final vote Extension of the timeframe for the establishment of the Eurojust case management system	For	Abstained	ESN
9 Sept 2025	Final vote — text as a whole EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (Resolution)	Abstained	Against	ESN
18 Jun 2025	Final vote EU/Euratom Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty: adoption by Euratom	Abstained	Against	ESN
24 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia	Abstained	Against	ESN

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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
Tomasz FROELICH , ESN · Germany	2.5 %	565	0	6	8	0

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 26 Sept 2026, 03:32 UTC (data stamp 579b2832c723, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=190574&scope=final&to=2026-09-26
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version 579b2832c723 (26 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: 26 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Tomasz FROELICH”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=190574&scope=final&to=2026-09-26 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Tomasz FROELICH}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=190574&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=190574&scope=final&to=2026-09-26},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}