Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Alexandra MEHNERT

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 Alexandra MEHNERT only. Show every member

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

Alexandra MEHNERT’s votes against the line, 32

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	Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 5 The recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect EU’s external borders	Against	For	EPP
16 Sept 2026	Paragraph 18 — part 1 Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions	Against	For	EPP
16 Sept 2026	Paragraph 3 — part 2 Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions	Against	For	EPP
16 Sept 2026	Paragraph 3 — part 1 Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions	Against	For	EPP
9 Jul 2026	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 3 The abduction, forced conversion and child marriage of Maria Shahbaz and the protection of girls in Pakistan	Against	For	EPP
9 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The threat of war crimes, the escalating violations of international humanitarian law and the human rights situation in El-Obeid, Sudan	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 63 2025 Commission report on Kosovo	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Amendment 3 to paragraph 73 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia	For	Against	EPP
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 40 to paragraph 160, after point vii Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission	Against	For	EPP
10 Mar 2026	Paragraph 45 — part 3 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing	Against	For	EPP
17 Dec 2025	Amendment 6 to recital N European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’	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
13 Nov 2025	Amendment 57 to recital 3 Framework for achieving climate neutrality	For	Against	EPP
9 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Second World Summit for Social Development	Against	For	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Final vote Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	Against	For	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 141 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 139 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	Against	For	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 137 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 125 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 124 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 133 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Amendment 132 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	For	Against	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	Against	For	EPP
17 Jun 2025	Amendment 186 to Article 3, after paragraph 2 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)	Against	For	EPP
7 May 2025	Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 28 A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world	For	Against	EPP
3 Apr 2025	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 1 Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative Committee	Against	For	EPP
12 Mar 2025	Amendment 36, adding text before paragraph 1 White paper on the future of European defence	For	Against	EPP
12 Mar 2025	Final vote — text as a whole European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025	Abstained	For	EPP
13 Feb 2025	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 4 Continuing detention and risk of the death penalty for individuals in Nigeria charged with blasphemy, notably the case of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu	Against	For	EPP
23 Jan 2025	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 4 Systematic repression of human rights in Iran, notably the cases of Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha Moradi, and the taking of EU citizens as hostages	For	Against	EPP
9 Oct 2024	Amendment 1 to paragraph 7 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration	For	Abstained	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 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).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
Alexandra MEHNERT , EPP · Germany	0.6 %	4 941	28	3	1	27

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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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256980&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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Alexandra MEHNERT”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256980&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 · Alexandra MEHNERT}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256980&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256980&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}
}