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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Ciaran MULLOOLY

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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Ciaran MULLOOLY’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.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
15 Sept 2026Final vote Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measuresAbstainedForRenew
20 May 2026Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Canada Agreement laying down the conditions for the participation of Canadian legal entities and products originating in Canada to procurement under the SAFE InstrumentAbstainedForRenew
12 Mar 2026Final vote — text as a whole Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
11 Mar 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Flagship European defence projects of common interestAbstainedForRenew
11 Mar 2026Final vote — text as a whole Tackling barriers to the single market for defenceAbstainedForRenew
11 Feb 2026Final vote — text as a whole EU strategic defence and security partnershipsAgainstForRenew
10 Feb 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Framework for achieving climate neutralityAbstainedForRenew
10 Feb 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForRenew
22 Jan 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Motion of censure on the CommissionForAgainstRenew
17 Dec 2025Final vote — text as a whole European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needsAbstainedForRenew
17 Dec 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Military MobilityAbstainedForRenew
16 Dec 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe PlanAgainstForRenew
25 Nov 2025Final vote — text as a whole Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AbstainedForRenew
25 Nov 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’)AgainstForRenew
13 Nov 2025Final vote Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AgainstForRenew
13 Nov 2025Final vote Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsForAgainstRenew
13 Nov 2025Final vote Framework for achieving climate neutralityAbstainedForRenew
23 Oct 2025Final vote on motion B10-0464/2025 Specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from low-carbon fuelsAbstainedAgainstRenew
23 Oct 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution InvestEU Fund strategic investments in the field of defenceForAgainstRenew
21 Oct 2025Final vote Standing Forest and Forestry Expert GroupAgainstForRenew
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets UnionAbstainedForRenew
10 Jul 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Motion of censure on the CommissionForAgainstRenew
8 Jul 2025Final vote — text as a whole Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2024AbstainedForRenew
12 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForRenew
12 Mar 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Norway Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff-rate quotas included in EU Schedule CLXXV as a consequence of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European UnionAbstainedForRenew
27 Nov 2024Election election of the commission Final vote Election of the CommissionAbstainedForRenew
26 Nov 2024Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified cotton COT102AbstainedForRenew

By member, 1

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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Ciaran MULLOOLY , Renew · Ireland 6.3 %4281116010

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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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257298&scope=final&to=2026-09-25
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Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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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 — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Ciaran MULLOOLY”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257298&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 · Ciaran MULLOOLY}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257298&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=257298&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}
}