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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Matthieu VALET

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 Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes620All roll calls5 928
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Matthieu VALET only. Show every member

Matthieu VALET’s votes against the line, 30

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.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
8 Jul 2026Amendment 35, adding text after paragraph 32 — part 1 2025 Commission report on UkraineAgainstForPatriots
8 Jul 2026Amendment 38 to paragraph 56 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)ForAgainstPatriots
8 Jul 2026Amendment 30 to paragraph 45 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)AbstainedAgainstPatriots
8 Jul 2026Amendment 27 to paragraph 40 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)AbstainedAgainstPatriots
7 Jul 2026Separate vote on paragraph 14 A new strategy for media literacy and digital learningForAgainstPatriots
7 Jul 2026Amendment 4 to paragraph 33 A coherent tax framework for the EU’s financial sectorAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 14, adding text after recital F Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 13, adding text after recital A Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaForAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 19, adding text after paragraph 4 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 4 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaForAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
20 May 2026Amendment 29, adding text after recital F Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General AssemblyAbstainedAgainstPatriots
11 Mar 2026Amendment 1 to paragraph 1, after point f Recommendation on enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the current geopolitical context, including the threats to Canada’s economic stability and sovereigntyAbstainedAgainstPatriots
11 Mar 2026Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 22 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026AbstainedAgainstPatriots
11 Mar 2026Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 15 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026AbstainedAgainstPatriots
10 Mar 2026Paragraph 47 — part 3 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingAgainstForPatriots
10 Mar 2026Amendment 33 to paragraph 29 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingForAgainstPatriots
17 Dec 2025Separate vote on recital Q European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ForAgainstPatriots
16 Dec 2025Amendment 35 to Article 9 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForPatriots
23 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 38 UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30)ForAgainstPatriots
22 Oct 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 16 — part 1 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAbstainedAgainstPatriots
8 Oct 2025Amendment 148 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstPatriots
9 Sept 2025Amendment 3, adding text after recital W 2023 and 2024 reports on UkraineAgainstAbstainedPatriots
7 May 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 236 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsAbstainedAgainstPatriots
2 Apr 2025Amendment 18 to paragraph 28 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstPatriots
23 Jan 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 4 Case of Jean-Jacques Wondo in the Democratic Republic of the CongoAbstainedForPatriots

By member, 1

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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Matthieu VALET , Patriots · France 1.0 %3 1261118120

About these figures

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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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256875&to=2026-09-25
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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
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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 · Matthieu VALET”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256875&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 · Matthieu VALET}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256875&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256875&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}
}