Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Lara WOLTERS

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

Order Highest rate first By name

Showing Lara WOLTERS only. Show every member

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

Lara WOLTERS’s votes against the line, 31

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 on the motion for a resolution The role of social, economic and environmental standards in safeguarding fair competition for all aquatic food products and improving food security	Against	For	S&D
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Switzerland Agreement on the transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime	Abstained	For	S&D
7 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Digital assets – challenges for the competitiveness and integrity of the European Union’s financial system	Abstained	For	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	Against	For	S&D
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods	Against	For	S&D
20 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The impact of the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins	Abstained	For	S&D
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision United Nations Convention against Cybercrime	Abstained	For	S&D
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement	Abstained	For	S&D
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	Abstained	For	S&D
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture	Abstained	For	S&D
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods	Abstained	For	S&D
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America	Abstained	For	S&D
26 Mar 2026	Final vote 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 application	Against	For	S&D
10 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housing	Abstained	For	S&D
21 Jan 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina Agreement on operational activities carried out by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina	Against	For	S&D
18 Dec 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries, and the development and deployment of fishing gear	Against	For	S&D
18 Dec 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria, including from St Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri	Abstained	For	S&D
27 Nov 2025	Final vote Harmonised requirements in the internal market on transparency of third countries interest representation	Abstained	For	S&D
27 Nov 2025	Final vote Amending Regulations on the Internal Market Information System (IMI) and on the single digital gateway as regards certain harmonisation requirements on transparency	Abstained	For	S&D
13 Nov 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision Digital Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore	Against	For	S&D
13 Nov 2025	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed Agreement on Digital Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore	For	Against	S&D
7 Oct 2025	Final vote on the provisional agreement Revision of the Visa Suspension Mechanism	Against	For	S&D
10 Jul 2025	Final vote Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 as regards obligations of economic operators concerning battery due diligence policies	Against	For	S&D
9 Jul 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024	Against	For	S&D
7 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole The European Water Resilience Strategy	Abstained	For	S&D
3 Apr 2025	Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Establishing an EU talent pool	Abstained	For	S&D
2 Apr 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III	Against	For	S&D
12 Mar 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data	Against	For	S&D
11 Feb 2025	Final vote — text as a whole European Central Bank – annual report 2024	Against	For	S&D
23 Jan 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025	Abstained	For	S&D
21 Jan 2025	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU/Republic of Serbia agreement on operational activities carried out by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency in the Republic of Serbia	Against	For	S&D

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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
Lara WOLTERS , S&D · Netherlands	5.8 %	538	15	16	0	27

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 26 Sept 2026, 03:32 UTC (data stamp 579b2832c723, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=5392&scope=final&to=2026-09-26
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: data version 579b2832c723 (26 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 · Lara WOLTERS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=5392&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 579b2832c723 (26 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 · Lara WOLTERS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=5392&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=5392&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 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}