Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Gilles BOYER

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 Gilles BOYER only. Show every member

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

Gilles BOYER’s votes against the line, 17

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 Türkiye	Abstained	For	Renew
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)	Abstained	For	Renew
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods	Against	For	Renew
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America	Against	For	Renew
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole New Chinese law on ‘ethnic unity and progress’ and the intensified suppression of ethnic identities	Against	For	Renew
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024	Abstained	Against	Renew
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)	Abstained	For	Renew
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods	Abstained	For	Renew
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America	Abstained	For	Renew
12 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024	Abstained	Against	Renew
11 Mar 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Ecuador Agreement: cooperation between Europol and the Ecuadorian authorities competent for combating serious crime and terrorism	Abstained	For	Renew
11 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole EU strategic defence and security partnerships	Abstained	For	Renew
18 Dec 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries, and the development and deployment of fishing gear	Abstained	For	Renew
22 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations	Abstained	For	Renew
7 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye	Abstained	For	Renew
7 May 2025	Request for urgent procedure Final vote Amending of the ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review	Abstained	Against	Renew
23 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Against	Renew

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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
Gilles BOYER , Renew · France	3.0 %	567	4	13	0	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 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=197577&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 · Gilles BOYER”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197577&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 · Gilles BOYER}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197577&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197577&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}
}