Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Sebastiaan STÖTELER

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 Sebastiaan STÖTELER only. Show every member

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

Sebastiaan STÖTELER’s votes against the line, 29

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
22 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Polarisation and increased repression in Serbia, one year after the Novi Sad tragedy	Abstained	Against	Patriots
22 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2023: Agencies	For	Abstained	Patriots
10 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness	Against	Abstained	Patriots
9 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports	Abstained	For	Patriots
8 Jul 2025	Council draft Final vote VAT: taxable persons, special scheme and special arrangements for declaration and payment, relating to distance sales of imported goods	Abstained	For	Patriots
19 Jun 2025	Final vote Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability	Against	For	Patriots
19 Jun 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in Mali	Against	For	Patriots
17 Jun 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy	Against	For	Patriots
8 May 2025	Final vote Suspending certain parts of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the European Union	Abstained	Against	Patriots
8 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Violations of religious freedom in Tibet	Abstained	For	Patriots
7 May 2025	Final vote Discharge 2023: European Public Prosecutor’s Office	Abstained	Against	Patriots
7 May 2025	Final vote Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Economic and Social Committee	Abstained	Against	Patriots
7 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Auditors	Abstained	For	Patriots
7 May 2025	Final vote Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union	Abstained	Against	Patriots
7 May 2025	Request for urgent procedure Final vote Amending of Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund + (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges	Against	For	Patriots
7 May 2025	Request for urgent procedure Final vote Amending of the ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review	Against	For	Patriots
6 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2024/003 BE/Van Hool – Belgium	Against	For	Patriots
1 Apr 2025	Final vote Macro-financial assistance to Egypt	Against	For	Patriots
1 Apr 2025	Final vote Macro-financial assistance to Jordan	Against	For	Patriots
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	Patriots
22 Jan 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus	Abstained	For	Patriots
17 Dec 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper – Belgium	Against	For	Patriots
17 Dec 2024	Final vote Regional Emergency Support: RESTORE	Against	For	Patriots
28 Nov 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia	Abstained	Against	Patriots
27 Nov 2024	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Germany and Italy relating to floods occurred in 2024	Against	For	Patriots
27 Nov 2024	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Draft amending budget No 5/2024: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates	Against	Abstained	Patriots
22 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch	Against	For	Patriots
10 Oct 2024	Final vote — text as a whole The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas	Abstained	For	Patriots
17 Jul 2024	Final vote — text as a whole The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine	Abstained	Against	Patriots

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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
Sebastiaan STÖTELER , Patriots · Netherlands · left on 11 Nov 2025	17.6 %	165	12	14	3	27

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=256991&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 · Sebastiaan STÖTELER”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256991&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 · Sebastiaan STÖTELER}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256991&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=256991&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}
}