Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Ville NIINISTÖ

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 Ville NIINISTÖ only. Show every member

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

Ville NIINISTÖ’s votes against the line, 13

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
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 96 to Article 2, paragraph 1, point 2, point b Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products	Against	For	Greens
24 Feb 2026	Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 11 Four years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for Ukraine	Against	For	Greens
21 Jan 2026	Amendment 45, adding text after paragraph 57 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025	For	Abstained	Greens
21 Jan 2026	Recital C — part 2 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025	For	Against	Greens
21 Jan 2026	Separate vote on recital AJ Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025	Abstained	Against	Greens
20 Jan 2026	Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 9a Murder of Mehdi Kessaci – urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking	For	Against	Greens
20 Jan 2026	Amendment 27 to paragraph 41 The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies	For	Against	Greens
22 Oct 2025	Amendment 159, adding text after paragraph 82 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections	For	Abstained	Greens
8 Oct 2025	Final vote Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	Abstained	For	Greens
2 Apr 2025	Amendment 53 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024	Abstained	For	Greens
12 Mar 2025	Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression	For	Against	Greens
23 Oct 2024	Amendment 68, adding text after paragraph 91 — part 2 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	For	Against	Greens
19 Sept 2024	Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 8 — part 1 The devastating floods in central and eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change	Abstained	For	Greens

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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 300 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
Ville NIINISTÖ , Greens · Finland	0.3 %	4 290	7	4	2	3

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What was counted, what was left out, and how.

5 928 votes considered (all roll-call 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 300 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=197802&to=2026-09-25
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: 25 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Ville NIINISTÖ”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197802&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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Ville NIINISTÖ}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197802&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197802&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}
}