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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Sérgio GONÇALVES

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 Sérgio GONÇALVES only. Show every member

Sérgio GONÇALVES’s votes against the line, 33

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
15 Sept 2026Amendment 99, adding text after recital 4 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measuresForAgainstS&D
15 Sept 2026Amendment 103 to Article 1 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measuresForAgainstS&D
15 Sept 2026Amendment 87 to Article 1 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measuresForAgainstS&D
8 Jul 2026Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 61 2025 Commission report on UkraineForAgainstS&D
7 Jul 2026Amendment 3, adding text before paragraph 1 — part 2 Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025ForAgainstS&D
17 Jun 2026Final vote General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related productsAbstainedAgainstS&D
17 Jun 2026Final vote Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)AbstainedAgainstS&D
20 May 2026Amendment 63 to paragraph 1, after point aj Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General AssemblyAgainstForS&D
26 Mar 2026Amendment 33 to Article 1 Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of applicationForAbstainedS&D
12 Feb 2026Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 11 Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefireForAgainstS&D
23 Oct 2025Paragraph 78 — part 2 UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30)AgainstForS&D
23 Oct 2025Paragraph 78 — part 1 UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30)AgainstForS&D
23 Oct 2025Amendment 8 to paragraph 78 UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30)ForAgainstS&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
8 Oct 2025Paragraph 8 — part 2 Draft amending budget No 2/2025: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditureAgainstForS&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
9 Sept 2025Amendment 42, adding text after paragraph 2 Public procurementForAgainstS&D
19 Jun 2025Amendment 3 to recital G Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in MaliForAgainstS&D
18 Jun 2025Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 19 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityForAgainstS&D
7 May 2025Amendment 7 to paragraph 21 — part 2 2023 and 2024 reports on TürkiyeForAgainstS&D
12 Mar 2025Amendment 49, adding text after paragraph 5 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForS&D
11 Feb 2025Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 13 European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAbstainedS&D
27 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Presentation by the President-elect of the Commission of the College of Commissioners and its programmeForAgainstS&D
25 Nov 2024Monday’s agenda — Request by The Left Group Final vote Monday’s agenda – Request by The Left GroupAgainstForS&D
23 Oct 2024Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 34 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsForAgainstS&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 VenezuelaForAgainstS&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 9 to paragraph 5 The need for the EU's continuous support for UkraineAbstainedAgainstS&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
Sérgio GONÇALVES , S&D · Portugal 0.6 %5 65724548

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=257079&scope=all&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 · Sérgio GONÇALVES”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257079&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 · Sérgio GONÇALVES}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257079&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257079&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}
}