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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Pascal ARIMONT

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 Pascal ARIMONT only. Show every member

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

Pascal ARIMONT’s votes against the line, 25

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 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders	Abstained	For	EPP
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 94313	For	Against	EPP
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean GMB151 x DAS-44406-6	For	Against	EPP
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	Against	For	EPP
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and risks to the security of supply of medicines	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Final vote General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products	Against	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Final vote Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)	Against	For	EPP
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)	Abstained	For	EPP
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024	Against	For	EPP
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)	Against	For	EPP
21 Jan 2026	Final vote on motion B10-0060/2026 Request for opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement (EMPA) and Interim Trade Agreement (ITA)	For	Against	EPP
17 Dec 2025	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Dec 2025	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept	Abstained	For	EPP
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	EPP
27 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Application of the Treaty provisions related to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality and the role of national parliaments in the EU legislative process	Abstained	For	EPP
26 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups	Abstained	For	EPP
26 Nov 2025	Final vote Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders	Abstained	For	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified cotton MON 88913	For	Against	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize DAS1131	For	Against	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Decision to maintain the action Final vote Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposal	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Final vote Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	Against	For	EPP
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	EPP
8 May 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 87705 × MON 87708 × MON 89788	For	Against	EPP
6 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023	Abstained	For	EPP
19 Dec 2024	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Amending Directive 2009/38/EC as regards the establishment and functioning of European Works Councils and the effective enforcement of transnational information and consultation rights	Abstained	Against	EPP

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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
Pascal ARIMONT , EPP · Belgium	4.6 %	541	14	11	0	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=24922&scope=final&to=2026-09-25
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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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 · Pascal ARIMONT”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=24922&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 · Pascal ARIMONT}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=24922&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=24922&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}
}