Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Rada LAYKOVA

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

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

Rada LAYKOVA’s votes against the line, 27

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	Final vote — text as a whole Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro	Abstained	For	ESN
15 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the Council Recommendation on a Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee	Abstained	Against	ESN
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Serbia	Abstained	Against	ESN
7 Jul 2026	Joint text Final vote Air passenger rights	Abstained	For	ESN
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Continued crackdown on civic space and fundamental freedoms in Burkina Faso	Against	Abstained	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Kosovo	For	Against	ESN
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Albania	Abstained	Against	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Norway Agreement on transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime	Against	For	ESN
29 Apr 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Iceland agreement on transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute terrorist offences and serious crime	Against	For	ESN
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024	Abstained	Against	ESN
28 Apr 2026	Final vote Generalised scheme of tariff preferences	For	Against	ESN
11 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Interim report in view of the consent procedure on the Agreement establishing an association between the EU and the Principality of Andorra and the Republic of San Marino	Against	Abstained	ESN
10 Feb 2026	Final vote European Union designs (codification)	Against	Abstained	ESN
22 Jan 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Brutal repression against protesters in Iran	Against	Abstained	ESN
22 Jan 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Drones and new systems of warfare – the EU’s need to adapt to be fit for today’s security challenges	Against	Abstained	ESN
22 Jan 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Case of Joseph Figueira Martin in the Central African Republic	Abstained	For	ESN
8 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP51291	Against	For	ESN
7 Oct 2025	Final vote on the provisional agreement Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism	Abstained	For	ESN
10 Sept 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Vanuatu	Against	Abstained	ESN
9 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole (B10-0318/2025) Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add certain countries to the list of high-risk third countries, and to remove other countries from that list	For	Abstained	ESN
8 May 2025	Final vote The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season	Abstained	Against	ESN
7 May 2025	Final vote Discharge 2023: European Public Prosecutor’s Office	Abstained	Against	ESN
6 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2023	Against	For	ESN
17 Dec 2024	Final vote Forest reproductive material of the ‘tested’ category	Abstained	For	ESN
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	Abstained	For	ESN
8 Oct 2024	Final vote Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France further to natural disasters that occurred in 2023	Against	For	ESN
17 Jul 2024	Final vote — text as a whole The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine	Abstained	Against	ESN

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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
Rada LAYKOVA , ESN · Bulgaria	5.5 %	493	7	13	7	8

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=257262&scope=final&to=2026-09-26
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: 26 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Rada LAYKOVA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257262&scope=final&to=2026-09-26 (retrieved 26 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Rada LAYKOVA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257262&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257262&scope=final&to=2026-09-26},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  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}
}