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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN

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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Showing Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN only. Show every member

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

Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN’s votes against the line, 29

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
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Trajectory to decrease the contribution of high indirect land-use change-risk biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels to renewable energy targets	Against	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Final vote General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Final vote Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Pakistan Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV	Against	For	EPP
17 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation)	Abstained	For	EPP
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?	Abstained	For	EPP
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024	Against	For	EPP
26 Mar 2026	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation)	Against	For	EPP
12 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024	Abstained	For	EPP
10 Feb 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept	Abstained	For	EPP
10 Feb 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level	Abstained	For	EPP
17 Dec 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Simplification of the content and presentation of information to be disclosed concerning environmentally sustainable activities and simplification of certain technical screening criteria for determining whether economic activities cause no significant harm to environmental objectives	For	Against	EPP
17 Dec 2025	Final vote on the provisional agreement Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders	Against	For	EPP
16 Dec 2025	Final vote on the provisional agreement Corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements	Against	For	EPP
26 Nov 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups	Against	For	EPP
26 Nov 2025	Final vote Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders	Against	For	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified cotton MON 88913	For	Against	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize DAS1131	For	Against	EPP
25 Nov 2025	Decision to maintain the action Final vote Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposal	Abstained	Against	EPP
13 Nov 2025	Final vote Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements	Against	For	EPP
23 Oct 2025	Final vote on motion B10-0464/2025 Specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from low-carbon fuels	For	Against	EPP
21 Oct 2025	Proposal to reject the text Final vote Monitoring framework for resilient European forests	Against	For	EPP
8 Oct 2025	Final vote 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 penalties	Against	For	EPP
9 Jul 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Deforestation Regulation - list of countries presenting a low or high risk	Against	For	EPP
9 Jul 2025	Request for urgent procedure Final vote European Climate Law	For	Against	EPP
17 Jun 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville	For	Against	EPP
22 May 2025	Final vote Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism	Against	For	EPP
8 May 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 87705 × MON 87708 × MON 89788	For	Against	EPP
8 May 2025	Final vote The protection status of the wolf (Canis lupus)	Against	For	EPP

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).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN , EPP · Finland	6.1 %	477	21	8	0	0

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=40599&scope=final&to=2026-09-25
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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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: 25 September 2026

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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 · Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=40599&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 · Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=40599&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=40599&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}
}