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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES

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 André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES only. Show every member

André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES’s votes against the line, 39

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 19 to paragraph 29 2025 Commission report on UkraineForAgainstS&D
17 Jun 2026Final vote General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related productsAbstainedAgainstS&D
17 Jun 2026Amendment 4 to Article 1, paragraph 1, after point 1; Directive (EU) 2020/262 General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related productsAbstainedForS&D
17 Jun 2026Final vote Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)AbstainedAgainstS&D
17 Jun 2026Amendments 67 + 70 (voted as one) to Article 20 Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)AbstainedAgainstS&D
17 Jun 2026Amendments 60 + 61 (voted as one) to Article 16 Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)AbstainedAgainstS&D
30 Apr 2026Amendment 1 to paragraph 28 — part 2 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2027 – Section I – European ParliamentForAgainstS&D
29 Apr 2026Amendment 46 to paragraph 80 Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European ParliamentForAgainstS&D
28 Apr 2026Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 37 Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024AgainstForS&D
28 Apr 2026Amendments 125 + 129 (voted as one), adding text after Article 29 (corresponds to Article 34 in am 120) Generalised scheme of tariff preferencesForAgainstS&D
10 Mar 2026Amendment 62 to recital O Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingForAgainstS&D
10 Mar 2026Amendment 58, adding text after paragraph 20 — part 1 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingForAgainstS&D
21 Jan 2026Amendment 23, adding text after paragraph 34 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025AbstainedAgainstS&D
21 Jan 2026Amendment 22, adding text after paragraph 34 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025AbstainedAgainstS&D
17 Dec 2025Separate vote on recital Q European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AgainstForS&D
26 Nov 2025Amendments 82 + 122 (voted as one) to Article 1 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersAgainstForS&D
13 Nov 2025Amendment 63 to Article 2 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForS&D
23 Oct 2025Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 9 Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola SummitForAbstainedS&D
22 Oct 2025Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 48 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstS&D
22 Oct 2025Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 26 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstS&D
22 Oct 2025Amendment 75, adding text after paragraph 22 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForS&D
8 Oct 2025Amendments 81 + 86 (voted as one) to Annex I Amending certain CAP regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penaltiesAgainstForS&D
16 Jun 2025Tuesday’s agenda — Request by The Left Group Final vote Tuesday’s agenda – Request by The Left GroupForAgainstS&D
8 May 2025Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 3 Competition policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstS&D
7 May 2025Amendment 7 to paragraph 21 — part 1 2023 and 2024 reports on TürkiyeAgainstForS&D
2 Apr 2025Amendment 53 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstS&D
2 Apr 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 4 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstS&D
31 Mar 2025Tuesday's agenda — Request by the Verts/ALE Group Final vote Tuesday's agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE GroupAbstainedAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 25 The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in SyriaAbstainedForS&D
23 Oct 2024Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 34 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsForAgainstS&D
7 Oct 2024Tuesday’s agenda — Request by The Left Group Final vote Tuesday’s agenda – Request by The Left GroupAbstainedForS&D
19 Sept 2024Final vote — text as a whole Situation in VenezuelaForAgainstS&D
19 Sept 2024Amendment 3 to paragraph 3 Situation in VenezuelaForAbstainedS&D
19 Sept 2024Separate vote on paragraph 2 Situation in VenezuelaAbstainedAgainstS&D
19 Sept 2024Final vote — text as a whole The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in CubaAbstainedAgainstS&D
19 Sept 2024Separate vote on paragraph 6 The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in CubaAbstainedAgainstS&D
17 Jul 2024Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 8 The need for the EU's continuous support for UkraineForAgainstS&D
17 Jul 2024Paragraph 5 — part 7 The need for the EU's continuous support for UkraineAgainstForS&D
17 Jul 2024Paragraph 5 — part 2 The need for the EU's continuous support for UkraineAgainstForS&D

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
André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES , S&D · Portugal 0.8 %4 963241329

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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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 · André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257066&scope=all&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 · André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257066&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257066&scope=all&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}
}