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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Günther SIDL

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

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

Günther SIDL’s votes against the line, 18

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 Trajectory to decrease the contribution of high indirect land-use change-risk biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels to renewable energy targets	For	Against	S&D
21 May 2026	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 on securitisation and a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation	Against	For	S&D
21 May 2026	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions as regards requirements for securitisation exposures	Against	For	S&D
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	For	S&D
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?	Against	For	S&D
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	S&D
10 Feb 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept	Abstained	Against	S&D
10 Feb 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level	Abstained	Against	S&D
16 Dec 2025	Final vote Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products	Abstained	For	S&D
23 Oct 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution InvestEU Fund strategic investments in the field of defence	Abstained	Against	S&D
23 Oct 2025	Final vote Dates of application and transitional provisions for chemical products	Against	For	S&D
10 Sept 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policy	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Security of energy supply in the EU	Against	For	S&D
8 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2024	Abstained	For	S&D
22 May 2025	Final vote Euratom Research and Training Programme for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon Europe	Against	For	S&D
3 Apr 2025	Final vote Amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards the dates from which Member States are to apply certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements	Abstained	For	S&D
28 Nov 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia	Abstained	For	S&D
23 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Against	S&D

By member, 1

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
Günther SIDL , S&D · Austria	3.2 %	562	10	8	0	16

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=197677&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 · Günther SIDL”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197677&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 · Günther SIDL}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197677&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197677&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}
}