Member
Ralf SEEKATZ
EPP · Germany
Record
The member’s figures against the median of their group and of the chamber. Each vote counts the member in the group they belonged to that day.
Roll-call participation ⓘ
89.2 %
553 of 620 final votes while in office
EPP median: 90.6 % (−1.4 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
98.7 %
546 of 553 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 95.6 % (+3.2 pts)
5 opposite (for ↔ against), 1 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Ralf SEEKATZ | 89.2 % |
| EPP median | 90.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 18.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.8 % |
| Members | 192 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Ralf SEEKATZ | 98.7 % |
| EPP median | 95.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 67.8 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.0 % |
| Members | 192 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of EPP; no ranks.
- “No vote recorded” is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
- A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes — Parliament publishes no whip.
Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
Roll-call participation
One cell per sitting while in office, shaded by the share of that day’s roll calls the member voted in. The official attendance register is kept separately by Parliament.
"No vote recorded" is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
Data as a table
Voting neighbours
Members who voted the same way most often in the roll calls they both took part in, within and outside the member’s group (group at the date of each vote), over all roll calls of the term.
Work
Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.
Seats
| Body | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Economic and Monetary AffairsECON Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with JapanD-JP Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)DASE Delegation | Substitute | 20 May 2026 | now |
| Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assembly | Member | 15 Jun 2026 | now |
| Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assembly | Member | 15 Jun 2026 | now |
| Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)IG10-22 Intergroup / working group | Member | 12 Mar 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the Social Economy and Services of General InterestIG10-23 Intergroup / working group | Member | 30 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | 14 Jun 2026 |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 15
- Climate & environment 4
- Energy 2
- EU budget & funds 1
- Defence & security 1
- Digital, AI & data 1
- Foreign affairs 1
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 1
- Trade & customs 1
- Transport & tourism 1
Counts: dossiers they spoke on, led or amended, and their questions and motions.
In the chamber
Speeches and statements in plenary debates, newest first; the verbatim report is on Parliament’s site.
9 contributions recorded; 2 on behalf of their group; 13 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May 2026 | Amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 on securitisation and a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation (A10-0138/2026 - Ralf Seekatz) (vote) on behalf of EPP | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 9 Feb 2026 | European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate) on behalf of EPP | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 7 May 2025 | Banking Union – annual report 2024 (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 7 May 2025 | Banking Union – annual report 2024 (debate) | Speech · 3 min | Read |
| 7 May 2025 | Competition policy – annual report 2024 (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 31 Mar 2025 | Savings and Investments Union (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 13 Nov 2024 | Fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: listing Russia as a high-risk third country in the EU (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 18 Sept 2024 | Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 11
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 15
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
Connections
Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.
Political group
- Group European People’s Party EPP · Centre-right · Christian democracy, conservatism
National delegation
- Delegation Germany National delegation
Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- 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
- 27 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Ralf SEEKATZ”. Member record. memberId 197425. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197425?page=11&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 27 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197425. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197425?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (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.
BibTeX
@misc{epw-member-197425,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Ralf SEEKATZ}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197425?page=11&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197425?page=11&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-27},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197425. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197425. Data: EP Open Data: member record (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}
}