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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Jaak MADISON

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

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Jaak MADISON’s votes against the line, 84

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.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
16 Sept 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize MON 87460AbstainedForECR
16 Sept 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 94313AgainstForECR
16 Sept 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean GMB151 x DAS-44406-6AbstainedForECR
16 Sept 2026Final vote Establishing the Single Market and Customs Programme for the period 2028-2034ForAbstainedECR
8 Jul 2026Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP202216 x NK603 x DAS-40278-9 and its sub-combinations DP 202216 x NK603, DP202216 x DAS-40278-9AbstainedForECR
8 Jul 2026Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize NK603 × T25AgainstForECR
7 Jul 2026Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025AbstainedForECR
18 Jun 2026Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and risks to the security of supply of medicinesAbstainedForECR
17 Jun 2026Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on AlbaniaAbstainedForECR
16 Jun 2026Final vote — text as a whole Countering transnational repression – towards an EU strategy to protect Europe’s sovereignty and democratic valuesAgainstAbstainedECR
16 Jun 2026Final vote — text as a whole European political parties and foundations – 2026 report on the application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2025/2445 and on the activities fundedAgainstAbstainedECR
16 Jun 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)ForAbstainedECR
21 May 2026Final vote — text as a whole Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gapAgainstAbstainedECR
21 May 2026Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 on securitisation and a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisationAgainstAbstainedECR
20 May 2026Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General AssemblyAgainstAbstainedECR
19 May 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Screening of foreign investments in the UnionAbstainedForECR
29 Apr 2026Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty - BelgiumAgainstForECR
29 Apr 2026Final vote European Chemicals Agency and amending regulationsAgainstForECR
29 Apr 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Discharge 2024: Joint UndertakingsAbstainedForECR
28 Apr 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Enhancing connectivity, preserving cultural heritage and driving local excellence in European tourism – destination management and regional tourism growthAgainstAbstainedECR
28 Apr 2026Final vote — text as a whole The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquacultureAbstainedForECR
11 Mar 2026Final vote — text as a whole Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectorsAgainstAbstainedECR
11 Mar 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/004 BE/Tupperware – BelgiumAgainstForECR
11 Mar 2026Final vote on the draft Council decision Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of LawAgainstAbstainedECR
12 Feb 2026Final vote — text as a whole Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategyAbstainedAgainstECR
11 Feb 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified cotton T304-40AbstainedForECR
11 Feb 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize T25 (ACS-ZMØØ3-2)AbstainedForECR
11 Feb 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean DBN-09004-6AbstainedForECR
11 Feb 2026Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/006 BE/Audi – BelgiumAgainstForECR
22 Jan 2026Final vote — text as a whole Choice of performance indicators for audit and budgetary control in the context of financing measures to support the implementation of future European competitivenessForAbstainedECR
21 Jan 2026Amendments 1 + 243 (voted as one) Final vote Air passenger rightsAgainstForECR
20 Jan 2026Final vote — text as a whole Just transition directive in the world of work: ensuring the creation of jobs and revitalising local economiesForAgainstECR
20 Jan 2026Final vote — text as a whole The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companiesAgainstForECR
17 Dec 2025Final vote — text as a whole European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needsForAbstainedECR
16 Dec 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified sugar beet KWS20-1AgainstForECR
16 Dec 2025Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – SwedenAgainstForECR
16 Dec 2025Final vote Providing macro-financial assistance to JordanAbstainedForECR
22 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAgainstAbstainedECR
9 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024AgainstForECR
9 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Humanitarian and security situation in Haiti, in particular the rising power of criminal gangs and the recent massacre in CabaretAbstainedForECR
8 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 2/2025: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditureAgainstForECR
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisisAgainstForECR
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets UnionAgainstAbstainedECR
10 Sept 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement European Social Fund (ESF+): specific measures to address strategic challengesAbstainedForECR
9 Sept 2025Final vote Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehiclesAgainstForECR
9 Jul 2025Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024AbstainedForECR
8 Jul 2025Final vote Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026AbstainedForECR
19 Jun 2025Final vote Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceabilityAgainstAbstainedECR
18 Jun 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Macro-financial assistance to EgyptAbstainedForECR
17 Jun 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policyAbstainedForECR
Show all 84 votes
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.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
17 Jun 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Termination of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Cameroon on forest law enforcement governance and trade in timber and derived products to the Union.AgainstForECR
17 Jun 2025Final vote Amending Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 as regards additional assistance and further flexibility to outermost regions affected by severe natural disasters and in the context of cyclone Chido devastating MayotteAgainstForECR
7 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2023: Joint UndertakingsAgainstForECR
7 May 2025Final vote Discharge 2023: AgenciesAgainstForECR
7 May 2025Final vote Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European UnionAbstainedForECR
7 May 2025Final vote Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAbstainedForECR
7 May 2025Final vote Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European ParliamentAbstainedForECR
6 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023AbstainedForECR
6 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2024/003 BE/Van Hool – BelgiumAgainstForECR
6 May 2025A10–0064/2025 — Adam Jarubas — Consent procedure Final vote Amendments to the International Health Regulations contained in the Annex to Resolution WHA77.17 and adopted on 1 June 2024AgainstForECR
2 Apr 2025Final vote — text as a whole Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024AgainstAbstainedECR
13 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole Severe political, humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sudan, in particular the sexual violence and child rapeAbstainedForECR
11 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole Assessment of the implementation of Horizon Europe in view of its interim evaluation and recommendations for the 10th Research Framework ProgrammeAgainstForECR
11 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole European Social Fund Plus post-2027AgainstAbstainedECR
11 Mar 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Republic of MoldovaAbstainedForECR
12 Feb 2025Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize MON 95275AgainstForECR
12 Feb 2025Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP910521AgainstForECR
17 Dec 2024Final vote — text as a whole Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023AbstainedForECR
17 Dec 2024Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper – BelgiumAgainstForECR
17 Dec 2024Final vote Specific measures under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) for Member States affected by natural disastersAgainstForECR
28 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environmentsAbstainedAgainstECR
27 Nov 2024Final vote on the motion for a resolution Draft amending budget No 5/2024: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updatesAgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize MON 94804AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP202216AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP23211AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP915635AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize MON 810AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize MON 89034 × 1507 × MON 88017 × 59122 and eight of its sub-combinationsAgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize MON 89034 × 1507 × NK603AbstainedForECR
22 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole 2022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAgainstAbstainedECR
22 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-SmatchAgainstForECR
22 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agenciesAgainstForECR
22 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023AbstainedForECR
19 Sept 2024Final vote — text as a whole The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’AbstainedForECR

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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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Jaak MADISON , ECR · Estonia 18.5 %4543531180

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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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 · Jaak MADISON”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197493&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 · Jaak MADISON}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197493&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197493&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}
}