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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Sandra KALNIETE

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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Sandra KALNIETE’s votes against the line, 35

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
8 Jul 2026Amendment 50, adding text after recital L 2025 Commission report on UkraineForAgainstEPP
8 Jul 2026Amendment 35, adding text after paragraph 32 — part 4 2025 Commission report on UkraineAgainstForEPP
19 May 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel marketAgainstForEPP
29 Apr 2026Amendment 9 to paragraph 116 The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law reportForAgainstEPP
29 Apr 2026Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 113 The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law reportForAgainstEPP
29 Apr 2026Amendment 24, adding text after recital 6 Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sectorForAgainstEPP
29 Apr 2026Amendment 43, adding text after paragraph 1 Discharge 2024: AgenciesForAgainstEPP
28 Apr 2026Amendment 6 to paragraph 60 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section IIIAgainstForEPP
26 Mar 2026Proposal to reject the text Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goodsForAgainstEPP
10 Mar 2026Amendment 29, adding text after paragraph 22 Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingForAgainstEPP
24 Feb 2026Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 5 Four years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for UkraineForAgainstEPP
12 Feb 2026Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 8 Situation in Northeast Syria, the violence against civilians and the need to maintain a sustainable ceasefireForAgainstEPP
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 WomenAgainstForEPP
21 Jan 2026Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 10 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025ForAgainstEPP
21 Jan 2026Amendment 19 to paragraph 15 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025AgainstForEPP
16 Dec 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForEPP
13 Nov 2025Amendments 221 + 279 (voted as one) to recital 5 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForEPP
13 Nov 2025Amendment 270 to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 667 Draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 87 to Article 1 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 penaltiesForAgainstEPP
9 Sept 2025Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 6 Public procurementForAgainstEPP
9 Jul 2025Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 6 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstEPP
8 May 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 87705 × MON 87708 × MON 89788ForAgainstEPP
6 May 2025Separate vote on recital F Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2024/003 BE/Van Hool – BelgiumAgainstForEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 6 Energy-intensive industriesForAgainstEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 8 Execution spree in Iran and the confirmation of the death sentences of activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi HassaniAgainstForEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 2 to paragraph 40 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European ParliamentForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 29 to paragraph 11 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 3, adding text before paragraph 1 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstEPP
13 Mar 2025Paragraph 16 — part 2 Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rightsForAgainstEPP
13 Mar 2025Paragraph 13 — part 2 Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rightsForAgainstEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 68, adding text after paragraph 91 — part 1 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 63 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstAbstainedEPP
19 Sept 2024Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 6 The severe situation of political prisoners in BelarusAbstainedForEPP

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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
Sandra KALNIETE , EPP · Latvia 0.7 %5 17533110

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=96934&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 · Sandra KALNIETE”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=96934&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 · Sandra KALNIETE}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=96934&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=96934&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}
}