Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Rihards KOLS

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 Rihards KOLS only. Show every member

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

Rihards KOLS’s votes against the line, 33

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
16 Sept 2026	Final vote Establishing the Single Market and Customs Programme for the period 2028-2034	For	Abstained	ECR
15 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The EU Youth Strategy 2019–2027	For	Abstained	ECR
15 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield	For	Against	ECR
15 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure	For	Abstained	ECR
9 Jul 2026	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishment of the digital euro	For	Against	ECR
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	For	Abstained	ECR
20 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response	Abstained	Against	ECR
20 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly	For	Abstained	ECR
29 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report	Abstained	Against	ECR
29 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025	Abstained	Against	ECR
29 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2024: European Public Prosecutor’s Office	Abstained	Against	ECR
29 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission	Abstained	Against	ECR
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU	Abstained	Against	ECR
11 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole EU enlargement strategy	For	Abstained	ECR
12 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefire	For	Abstained	ECR
12 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women	Abstained	Against	ECR
12 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy	Abstained	Against	ECR
22 Jan 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania	Abstained	Against	ECR
21 Jan 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025	For	Abstained	ECR
21 Jan 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025	For	Abstained	ECR
20 Jan 2026	Final vote Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest	For	Abstained	ECR
17 Dec 2025	Final vote — text as a whole (B10-0558/2025) European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’	Abstained	Against	ECR
25 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded	Abstained	Against	ECR
23 Oct 2025	Proposal to reject the text Final vote Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law)	Against	For	ECR
22 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations	Abstained	Against	ECR
17 Jun 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville	For	Against	ECR
8 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Banking Union – annual report 2024	For	Abstained	ECR
8 May 2025	Final vote Screening of foreign investments in the Union	For	Against	ECR
6 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023	For	Abstained	ECR
2 Apr 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024	For	Abstained	ECR
1 Apr 2025	Final vote Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks and improving cooperation among Union agencies in the area of chemicals	Abstained	Against	ECR
1 Apr 2025	Final vote Common data platform on chemicals, establishing a monitoring and outlook framework for chemicals	Abstained	Against	ECR
24 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia	For	Abstained	ECR

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
Rihards KOLS , ECR · Latvia	7.0 %	472	5	14	14	22

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=220871&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 · Rihards KOLS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=220871&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 · Rihards KOLS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=220871&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=220871&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}
}