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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Alexandre VARAUT

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

Showing Alexandre VARAUT only. Show every member

Alexandre VARAUT’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
15 Sept 2026Amendment 32, adding text after paragraph 19 Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldAgainstForPatriots
8 Jul 2026Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 71 2025 Commission report on UkraineAgainstForPatriots
8 Jul 2026Amendment 38 to paragraph 56 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)ForAgainstPatriots
8 Jul 2026Amendment 30 to paragraph 45 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)AbstainedAgainstPatriots
8 Jul 2026Amendment 27 to paragraph 40 EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement (Interim report)AbstainedAgainstPatriots
7 Jul 2026Amendment 4 to paragraph 33 A coherent tax framework for the EU’s financial sectorAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 14, adding text after recital F Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 13, adding text after recital A Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaForAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 19, adding text after paragraph 4 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 4 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaForAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
18 Jun 2026Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 1 Political repression and humanitarian situation in CubaAbstainedAgainstPatriots
29 Apr 2026Separate vote on paragraph 122 Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025AbstainedForPatriots
28 Apr 2026Paragraph 109 — part 2 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034ForAgainstPatriots
11 Mar 2026Amendment 1 to paragraph 1, after point f Recommendation on enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the current geopolitical context, including the threats to Canada’s economic stability and sovereigntyAbstainedAgainstPatriots
11 Mar 2026Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 22 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026AbstainedAgainstPatriots
11 Mar 2026Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 15 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026AbstainedAgainstPatriots
10 Mar 2026Paragraph 48 — part 2 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingAgainstForPatriots
10 Mar 2026Amendment 96, adding text after paragraph 4 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingAgainstForPatriots
12 Feb 2026Recital G — part 3 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenAbstainedAgainstPatriots
12 Feb 2026Recital G — part 2 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenAbstainedAgainstPatriots
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point s — part 2 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenForAgainstPatriots
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point q — part 2 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenAbstainedAgainstPatriots
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point n — part 2 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenForAgainstPatriots
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point n — part 1 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenForAgainstPatriots
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point k — part 2 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenForAgainstPatriots
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point h — part 2 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenForAgainstPatriots
22 Oct 2025Amendment 90, adding text after paragraph 40 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedAgainstPatriots
8 Oct 2025Amendment 148 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstPatriots
8 Oct 2025Amendment 84 to Annex I 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 penaltiesForAgainstPatriots
10 Sept 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Switzerland Cooperation Agreement: European Satellite Navigation ProgrammesAbstainedForPatriots
9 Jul 2025Amendment 6, adding text after recital U The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civiliansAgainstForPatriots
9 Jul 2025Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 3 The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civiliansForAgainstPatriots
9 Jul 2025Amendment 15 to paragraph 47 2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and HerzegovinaAgainstForPatriots
8 Jul 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 32 EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution)AbstainedAgainstPatriots
8 Jul 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030AbstainedForPatriots
2 Apr 2025Amendment 18 to paragraph 28 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstPatriots
10 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan AbbasAbstainedForPatriots
19 Sept 2024Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 6 The severe situation of political prisoners in BelarusAgainstForPatriots
17 Jul 2024Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 8 The need for the EU's continuous support for UkraineAbstainedAgainstPatriots

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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 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
Alexandre VARAUT , Patriots · France 1.0 %4 4061924029

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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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=5736&scope=all&to=2026-09-25
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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 · Alexandre VARAUT”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=5736&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 · Alexandre VARAUT}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=5736&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=5736&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}
}