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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Siegbert Frank DROESE

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

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

Siegbert Frank DROESE’s votes against the line, 36

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 on the motion for a resolution Post-electoral repression in Zambia and the killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya	Abstained	For	ESN
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro	Abstained	For	ESN
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Deteriorating situation of media freedom and freedom of expression in Hong Kong following the recent arrest of bookseller Leticia Wong and the convictions of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung	Against	Abstained	ESN
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize MON 87460	Against	For	ESN
16 Sept 2026	Final vote Nuclear decommissioning assistance programme of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania for the period 2028-2034	Abstained	For	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP202216 x NK603 x DAS-40278-9 and its sub-combinations DP 202216 x NK603, DP202216 x DAS-40278-9	Abstained	For	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize NK603 × T25	Abstained	For	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified soybean MON 87705	Abstained	For	ESN
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba	Against	Abstained	ESN
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Continued crackdown on civic space and fundamental freedoms in Burkina Faso	Against	Abstained	ESN
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Deteriorating situation of political prisoners in Belarus, in particular the case of Aliaksandra Pulinovich	Against	Abstained	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation on promoting transnational governance on water in the interests of conflict prevention and peace	Abstained	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU–Liberia Voluntary Partnership Agreement on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products: termination	Against	For	ESN
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-São Tomé and Príncipe Fisheries Partnership Agreement (2025–2029): Implementing Protocol	Against	For	ESN
30 Apr 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union	For	Against	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Discharge 2024: Joint Undertakings	For	Against	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/005 AT/KTM - Austria	Abstained	Against	ESN
26 Mar 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Lebanon Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation setting, participation of Lebanon in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)	Abstained	For	ESN
12 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Targeted expulsions of foreign journalists and foreign Christians in Türkiye under national security pretexts	Abstained	For	ESN
11 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Interim report in view of the consent procedure on the Agreement establishing an association between the EU and the Principality of Andorra and the Republic of San Marino	Against	Abstained	ESN
16 Dec 2025	Final vote Providing macro-financial assistance to Jordan	Against	For	ESN
16 Dec 2025	Final vote Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products	Against	For	ESN
26 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 3/2025: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates	For	Against	ESN
26 Nov 2025	Joint text Final vote 2026 budgetary procedure: joint text	For	Against	ESN
13 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Digital Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore (Resolution)	Abstained	For	ESN
13 Nov 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision Digital Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore	Abstained	For	ESN
23 Oct 2025	Final vote Dates of application and transitional provisions for chemical products	Against	For	ESN
9 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024	Abstained	For	ESN
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	Abstained	For	ESN
13 Mar 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Severe political, humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sudan, in particular the sexual violence and child rape	Abstained	For	ESN
23 Jan 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025	Against	Abstained	ESN
23 Jan 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Case of Boualem Sansal in Algeria	Against	Abstained	ESN
23 Jan 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages	Against	Abstained	ESN
21 Jan 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU/Republic of Serbia agreement on operational activities carried out by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency in the Republic of Serbia	Against	Abstained	ESN
19 Dec 2024	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan, in particular the case of Temirlan Sultanbekov	Against	Abstained	ESN
17 Dec 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023	Against	Abstained	ESN

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
Siegbert Frank DROESE , ESN · Germany	6.4 %	559	10	15	11	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=256949&scope=final&to=2026-09-26
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: 26 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Siegbert Frank DROESE”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256949&scope=final&to=2026-09-26 (retrieved 26 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Siegbert Frank DROESE}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256949&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256949&scope=final&to=2026-09-26},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  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}
}