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Member

Ralf SEEKATZ

EPP · Germany

Group
EPP PPE
Country
Germany
Roll-call participation
89.2 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
With majority line
98.7 %ⓘ of 553 votes where the group had a line · EPP median 95.6 %
More facts (5)
National party
CDU Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
6 of 514 votesⓘ
Committees
ECON, INTA (substitute)
Member id
197425
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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)

Against clear line ⓘ

1.2 %

6 of 514 votes where their group had a clear line

5 opposite (for ↔ against), 1 abstained against the line

Abstention ⓘ

0.2 %

1 of 553 votes cast

Participation 89.2 % — EPP median 90.6 %, 192 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 192 members of the EPP with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Ralf SEEKATZ89.2 %
EPP median90.6 %
Lowest in the group18.4 %
Highest in the group99.8 %
Members192
With majority line 98.7 % — EPP median 95.6 %, 192 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 192 members of the EPP with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Ralf SEEKATZ98.7 %
EPP median95.6 %
Lowest in the group67.8 %
Highest in the group99.0 %
Members192
  • 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.

Votes, 5 928

Export

Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.

Result: for–against–abstained. Majority line: how most of the member’s group voted that day (“Tie” when no position won). ≠ group marks a vote otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting) of their group.
DateDecision and voteResultPositionMajority line
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 42, adding text after paragraph 35 135 for, 502 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 36, adding text after paragraph 35 213 for, 433 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 35, adding text after paragraph 26 256 for, 373 against, 17 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 4 to paragraph 22 342 for, 260 against, 61 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 3 to paragraph 15 555 for, 56 against, 50 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 2 to paragraph 12 327 for, 291 against, 40 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 1 to paragraph 6 236 for, 377 against, 42 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 34, adding text after paragraph 5 173 for, 448 against, 20 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 8 to paragraph 1 123 for, 512 against, 21 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 33 to paragraph 1 179 for, 445 against, 27 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF): access to VAT information at Union level Final votePassed 549 for, 33 against, 84 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Hague Convention (1980) on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: accession of Cabo Verde Final votePassed 659 for, 1 against, 1 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products Final votePassed 325 for, 304 against, 29 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products Amendment 4 to Article 1, paragraph 1, after point 1; Directive (EU) 2020/262 287 for, 352 against, 20 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Final voteFailed 181 for, 439 against, 38 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 93 to recital 18 300 for, 331 against, 31 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 92 to recital 15 281 for, 315 against, 62 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 91, adding text after Recital 4 297 for, 267 against, 87 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 90, adding text after Recital 3 284 for, 293 against, 70 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 89 to recital 3 287 for, 304 against, 69 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendments 67 + 70 (voted as one) to Article 20 289 for, 316 against, 51 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendments 60 + 61 (voted as one) to Article 16 328 for, 294 against, 32 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 96 to Article 12, after paragraph 4 266 for, 363 against, 32 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 95 to Article 12, paragraph 4 273 for, 352 against, 32 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 94 to Article 12, after paragraph 3 269 for, 353 against, 37 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026EU–Liberia Voluntary Partnership Agreement on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products: termination (Resolution) Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 542 for, 52 against, 70 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026EU–Liberia Voluntary Partnership Agreement on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products: termination Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 608 for, 38 against, 15 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026EU-Pakistan Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 276 for, 13 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 418 for, 218 against, 30 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) Proposal to vote on amendments 258 for, 394 against, 6 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) Proposal to reject the text 198 for, 453 against, 5 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 30, adding text after Recital 68 261 for, 365 against, 30 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 1 to recital 34 270 for, 349 against, 38 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 20 + 28 (voted as one), adding text after Recital 25 258 for, 370 against, 25 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 19, adding text after Recital 18 185 for, 450 against, 21 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 27, adding text after Recital 15 212 for, 424 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 18 + 26 (voted as one), adding text after Recital 1 209 for, 433 against, 19 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 37 to Annex II, after point 2 205 for, 425 against, 24 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 15 + 16 + 24 + 36 (voted as one), adding text after Article 37 280 for, 343 against, 40 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 9 to Article 27, paragraph 1, point c 257 for, 353 against, 45 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 23 + 35 (voted as one), adding text after Article 24 262 for, 369 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 34, adding text after Article 11 264 for, 372 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 22 + 33 (voted as one) to Article 10, after paragraph 1 258 for, 376 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 32 to Article 10, paragraph 1 264 for, 372 against, 25 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 8 to Article 9, paragraph 1, subparagraph 2, after point d 269 for, 355 against, 33 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 7 to Article 7, paragraph 2, after point d 257 for, 354 against, 44 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 6 to Article 6, paragraph 3, after point d 269 for, 357 against, 39 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 21 + 31 (voted as one), adding text after Article 4 202 for, 428 against, 33 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 17 + 25 (voted as one) 201 for, 431 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
16 Jun 2026Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 344 for, 237 against, 66 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For

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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 on 5 of 80 sittings with roll calls.

"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.

At least 200 shared roll calls over at least six months in office together. Within = both sat in the same group on the date of the vote; a member who changed group can appear on both lists. Baseline = the median agreement of all pairs of members of the groups the two sat in on the date of each shared vote (within: the group they shared; outside: the two groups), weighted by the votes they shared in each combination.

Within EPP

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in the same group (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of that group.
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Christine SCHNEIDER Former memberEPPGermany100 % of 3 361 shared89 %
Oliver SCHENK EPPGermany100 % of 5 153 shared89 %
Axel VOSS EPPGermany99 % of 4 116 shared89 %
Verena MERTENS EPPGermany99 % of 4 765 shared89 %
Marion WALSMANN EPPGermany99 % of 5 102 shared89 %
Alexandra MEHNERT EPPGermany99 % of 4 672 shared89 %
Stefan KÖHLER EPPGermany99 % of 4 767 shared89 %
Lena DÜPONT EPPGermany99 % of 4 388 shared89 %
Norbert LINS EPPGermany99 % of 5 081 shared89 %
Andrea WECHSLER EPPGermany99 % of 5 062 shared89 %

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Outside the group

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in different groups (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of the groups the two sat in on those votes (groups at the date, weighted by the votes shared in each combination).
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Urmas PAET RenewEstonia89 % of 4 802 shared82 %
Dan BARNA RenewRomania88 % of 4 681 shared82 %
Katri KULMUNI RenewFinland88 % of 4 095 shared82 %
Andreas GLÜCK RenewGermany88 % of 3 614 shared82 %
Bart GROOTHUIS RenewNetherlands88 % of 3 887 shared82 %
Hilde VAUTMANS RenewBelgium88 % of 5 045 shared82 %
Marie-Agnes STRACK-ZIMMERMANN RenewGermany87 % of 4 295 shared82 %
Moritz KÖRNER RenewGermany87 % of 5 114 shared82 %
Eugen TOMAC RenewRomania87 % of 3 768 shared82 %
Jeannette BALJEU RenewNetherlands87 % of 4 536 shared82 %

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Work

Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.

Seats

Body: the committee, delegation or intergroup, with its kind. Role: the member’s role in it. From, To: the dates of the seat (“now” while it lasts).
BodyRoleFromTo
Committee on Economic and Monetary AffairsECON CommitteeMember19 Jul 2024now
Committee on International TradeINTA CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Delegation for relations with JapanD-JP DelegationSubstitute19 Sept 2024now
Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)DASE DelegationSubstitute20 May 2026now
Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assemblyMember15 Jun 2026now
Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assemblyMember15 Jun 2026now
Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)IG10-22 Intergroup / working groupMember12 Mar 2025now
Intergroup on the Social Economy and Services of General InterestIG10-23 Intergroup / working groupMember30 Jan 2025now
Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA DelegationMember19 Sept 202414 Jun 2026

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Dossiers

Dossier: the procedure the declaration names (“No dossier named” for a delegation without one). Role: rapporteur, shadow rapporteur, negotiator or delegation. Committee: the committee that appointed them. Date: of the declaration.
DossierRoleCommitteeDate
No dossier namedOfficial delegationECON20 May 2026
European Central Bank – annual report 2025Shadow rapporteurECON6 Oct 2025
Amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions as regards requirements for securitisation exposuresRapporteurECON30 Jun 2025
Amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 laying down a general framework for securitisation and creating a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisationRapporteurECON30 Jun 2025
Amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions as regards requirements for securities financing transactions under the net stable funding ratioShadow rapporteurECON7 May 2025
IPM Kapstadt, South AfricaOfficial delegation5 Feb 2025
Banking Union – annual report 2024RapporteurECON15 Oct 2024
No dossier namedShadow rapporteurECON26 Sept 2024

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Topics they work on (model-assigned)

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: the sitting. Debate: the item debated, and the group when they spoke on its behalf. Kind: speech or written statement, with speaking time. Verbatim: the verbatim report on Parliament’s site.
DateDebateKindVerbatim
21 May 2026Amending 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 EPPSpeech · 1 minRead
11 Mar 2026Savings and Investments Union: time to accelerate the process to deepen market integration (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
9 Feb 2026European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate) on behalf of EPPSpeech · 2 minRead
7 May 2025Banking Union – annual report 2024 (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
7 May 2025Banking Union – annual report 2024 (debate) Speech · 3 minRead
7 May 2025Competition policy – annual report 2024 (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
31 Mar 2025Savings and Investments Union (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
13 Nov 2024Fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: listing Russia as a high-risk third country in the EU (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
18 Sept 2024Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate) Speech · 2 minRead

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Questions and motions, 11

Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.

Date: tabled. Title: the question or motion, with its id. Kind: written question or motion for a resolution, with the number of co-authors. Answer: the date of the answer to a question.
DateTitleKindAnswer
23 Jul 2026Energy Performance of Buildings Directive E-10-2026-003113Written questionwith 17 co-authorsNot yet answered
22 Jul 2026Payment authorisations facilitating unlicensed online gambling in the EU E-10-2026-003078Written questionwith 1 co-author18 Sept 2026
14 Jan 2026Strengthening Europe’s printed circuit boards & electronics production E-10-2026-000120Written questionwith 15 co-authors24 Mar 2026
13 Jan 2026Drawdown and settlement status of EU structural funds in the 2014-2020 funding period – Rhineland-Palatinate programmes P-10-2026-000096Priority written question26 Feb 2026
18 Nov 2025Distortions of competition and possible circumvention of EU sanctions regimes against Belarus and Russia E-10-2025-004585Written question2 Feb 2026
25 Jun 2025Account information services in the anti-money laundering (AML) framework E-10-2025-002564Written questionwith 1 co-author12 Sept 2025
4 Jun 2025Impact assessment of Directive (EU) 2024/3019 E-10-2025-002227Written questionwith 10 co-authors30 Jul 2025
23 May 2025Consequences of the anti-dumping case brought by Imerys S.A. (C/2024/7049) E-10-2025-002084Written question9 Jul 2025
21 Feb 2025Flood protection measures versus nature conservation E-10-2025-000813Written questionwith 15 co-authors29 Apr 2025
21 Jan 2025Approval of State aid for Solar Package I E-10-2025-000235Written question18 Feb 2025

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Amendments tabled in committee, 15

Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.

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Connections

Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.

Political group

National delegation

  • Delegation Germany National delegation

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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
30 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=17&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 30 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 772c7b2d0380 (30 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=17&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197425?page=17&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-30},
  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 772c7b2d0380 (30 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}
}