Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI

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 %)

Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI’s votes against the line, 17

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 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Abstained	For	ECR
8 Jul 2026	Final vote EU–Mexico Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement	Abstained	For	ECR
7 Jul 2026	Request for urgent procedure Final vote Temporary derogation from certain provisions of the ePrivacy Directive to combat online child sexual abuse	Abstained	Against	ECR
21 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap	For	Abstained	ECR
28 Apr 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Control, transparency and traceability of performance-based instruments	Abstained	For	ECR
11 Mar 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law	For	Abstained	ECR
11 Mar 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission	Against	Abstained	ECR
12 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights	Abstained	Against	ECR
12 Feb 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategy	For	Against	ECR
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	For	Against	ECR
9 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Second World Summit for Social Development	Abstained	Against	ECR
8 Jul 2025	Final vote Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026	Abstained	For	ECR
7 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on Kosovo	Abstained	For	ECR
6 May 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023	For	Abstained	ECR
2 Apr 2025	Final vote Strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement	For	Against	ECR
1 Apr 2025	Final vote on the provisional agreement Customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the USA	Abstained	For	ECR
22 Jan 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Need for actions to address the continued oppression and fake elections in Belarus	Abstained	For	ECR

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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
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI , ECR · Lithuania	4.6 %	368	3	10	4	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 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=96697&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 · Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=96697&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 · Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=96697&scope=final&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=96697&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}
}