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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Özlem DEMIREL

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 %)

Özlem DEMIREL’s votes against the line, 29

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
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Serbia	Against	Abstained	The Left
7 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole A coherent tax framework for the EU’s financial sector	Against	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
29 Apr 2026	Final vote Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sector	Abstained	For	The Left
29 Apr 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Discharge 2024: Joint Undertakings	Abstained	For	The Left
11 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2026	Abstained	For	The Left
10 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges	Abstained	For	The Left
27 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement	Against	Abstained	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	Against	For	The Left
9 Oct 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution The role of simple tax rules and tax fragmentation in European competitiveness	Against	For	The Left
9 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Humanitarian and security situation in Haiti, in particular the rising power of criminal gangs and the recent massacre in Cabaret	Abstained	For	The Left
8 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 2/2025: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure	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
10 Jul 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Arbitrary arrest and torture of Belgian-Portuguese researcher Joseph Figueira Martin in the Central African Republic	Against	For	The Left
9 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024	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	Against	For	The Left
18 Jun 2025	Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova	Against	Abstained	The Left
18 Jun 2025	Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro	Against	Abstained	The Left
18 Jun 2025	Final vote — text as a whole The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report	Abstained	For	The Left
22 May 2025	Final vote Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism	Abstained	For	The Left
7 May 2025	Final vote Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Ombudsman	Against	For	The Left
1 Apr 2025	Final vote Macro-financial assistance to Jordan	Against	Abstained	The Left
1 Apr 2025	Final vote Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks and improving cooperation among Union agencies in the area of chemicals	Abstained	For	The Left
19 Dec 2024	Final vote on the motion for a resolution 11th year of the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation and the deteriorating human rights situation in occupied Crimea, notably the cases of Iryna Danylovych, Tofik Abdulhaziiev and Amet Suleymanov	Abstained	For	The Left
27 Nov 2024	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Draft amending budget No 5/2024: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates	Against	For	The Left
24 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia	Abstained	For	The Left
22 Oct 2024	Final vote Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine	Abstained	For	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
Özlem DEMIREL , The Left · Germany	6.8 %	429	6	15	8	8

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=197468&scope=final&to=2026-09-26
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: 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 · Özlem DEMIREL”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197468&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 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Özlem DEMIREL}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197468&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197468&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 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}
}