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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Marco SQUARTA

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

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Marco SQUARTA’s votes against the line, 43

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
16 Sept 2026Paragraph 43 — part 1 Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditionsForAgainstECR
15 Sept 2026Paragraph 101 — part 4 Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldForAgainstECR
15 Sept 2026Amendment 57, adding text after paragraph 5 Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldAbstainedForECR
16 Jun 2026Proposal to vote on amendments Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI)AbstainedForECR
20 May 2026Amendment 16 to paragraph 54 EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (resolution)AbstainedForECR
29 Apr 2026Amendment 15 to paragraph 38 The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law reportAgainstForECR
29 Apr 2026Recital W — part 2 Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025ForAgainstECR
29 Apr 2026Amendment 68, adding text after paragraph 5 Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025AbstainedForECR
29 Apr 2026Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Economic and Social CommitteeAbstainedAgainstECR
29 Apr 2026Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 11 Discharge 2024: EU general budget – CommissionAbstainedForECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 31 Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024ForAgainstECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 61 to paragraph 26 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section IIIAbstainedForECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 60, adding text after paragraph 4 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section IIIAbstainedForECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 4 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section IIIAbstainedForECR
28 Apr 2026Amendment 39, adding text after paragraph 120 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034ForAgainstECR
10 Mar 2026Amendment 61 to paragraph 53 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingAgainstForECR
10 Mar 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Harmonising certain aspects of insolvency lawAgainstForECR
24 Feb 2026Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 5 Four years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for UkraineForAgainstECR
21 Jan 2026Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 27 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025AbstainedAgainstECR
21 Jan 2026Separate vote on paragraph 41 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025AgainstForECR
20 Jan 2026Amendment 247, adding text after recital 22 Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interestForAgainstECR
18 Dec 2025Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regimeAbstainedAgainstECR
17 Dec 2025Paragraph 23 — part 2 European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needsAbstainedForECR
13 Nov 2025Final vote Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AbstainedAgainstECR
23 Oct 2025Proposal to reject the text Final vote Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law)AgainstForECR
11 Sept 2025Amendment 51, adding text after paragraph 4 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedAgainstECR
11 Sept 2025Amendment 47, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedAgainstECR
10 Sept 2025Paragraph 12 — part 2 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interferenceForAgainstECR
9 Sept 2025Paragraph 46 — part 2 Public procurementAbstainedForECR
9 Sept 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 39 Public procurementAbstainedAgainstECR
18 Jun 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 57 The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportForAgainstECR
6 May 2025Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 1 Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023AbstainedForECR
3 Apr 2025Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishing an EU talent poolAbstainedAgainstECR
2 Apr 2025Amendment 54, adding text after paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstECR
2 Apr 2025Amendment 147 to paragraph 4, after indent 8 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForECR
2 Apr 2025Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAbstainedForECR
13 Mar 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 6 Unlawful detention and sham trials of Armenian hostages, including high-ranking political representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh, by AzerbaijanAbstainedForECR
28 Nov 2024Recital F — part 2 Georgia's worsening democratic crisis following the recent parliamentary elections and alleged electoral fraudAbstainedAgainstECR
28 Nov 2024Paragraph 12 — part 2 Georgia's worsening democratic crisis following the recent parliamentary elections and alleged electoral fraudAbstainedForECR
28 Nov 2024Paragraph 10 — part 2 Georgia's worsening democratic crisis following the recent parliamentary elections and alleged electoral fraudAbstainedAgainstECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 50 to paragraph 89 — part 4 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedAgainstECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 5, adding text before paragraph 1 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsForAgainstECR
9 Oct 2024Paragraph 9 — part 2 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integrationAbstainedForECR

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
Marco SQUARTA , ECR · Italy 1.1 %3 9611726030

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 · Marco SQUARTA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257109&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 · Marco SQUARTA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257109&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257109&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}
}