Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Nils UŠAKOVS

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 Nils UŠAKOVS only. Show every member

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

Nils UŠAKOVS’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
17 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation)	For	Against	S&D
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application	Against	For	S&D
26 Mar 2026	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation)	For	Against	S&D
10 Feb 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept	For	Against	S&D
10 Feb 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level	For	Against	S&D
22 Jan 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania	Against	For	S&D
22 Jan 2026	Final 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 competitiveness	For	Against	S&D
17 Dec 2025	Final vote on the provisional agreement Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders	For	Against	S&D
17 Dec 2025	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level	For	Against	S&D
17 Dec 2025	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept	For	Against	S&D
26 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1818 as regards the definition of prohibited weapons	Against	Abstained	S&D
26 Nov 2025	Final vote Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders	For	Against	S&D
13 Nov 2025	Final vote Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements	For	Against	S&D
21 Oct 2025	Proposal to reject the text Final vote Monitoring framework for resilient European forests	For	Against	S&D
1 Apr 2025	Request for urgent procedure 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	For	Against	S&D
14 Nov 2024	Final vote Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application	For	Against	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
19 Sept 2024	Final vote — text as a whole The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in Cuba	Abstained	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
Nils UŠAKOVS , S&D · Latvia	3.3 %	543	16	1	1	0

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=197810&scope=final&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 — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Nils UŠAKOVS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197810&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 · Nils UŠAKOVS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197810&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197810&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}
}