Member
Özlem DEMIREL
The Left · Germany
- Group
- The Left
- Country
- Germany
- Roll-call participation
- 84.5 %ⓘ of 5 928 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.2 % · whole term, roll calls
- With majority line
- 95.2 %ⓘ of 5 000 votes where the group had a line · The Left median 92.8 %
More facts (5)
- National party
- DIE LINKE.
- In office
- Since 16 Jul 2024
- Against clear line
- 112 of 4 645 votesⓘ
- Committees
- AFET, EMPL (substitute), LIBE (substitute), SEDE
- Member id
- 197468
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 ⓘ
84.5 %
5 009 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
The Left median: 88.5 % (−4.0 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
95.2 %
4 762 of 5 000 votes where their group had a line
The Left median: 92.8 % (+2.5 pts)
50 opposite (for ↔ against), 51 abstained against the line, 11 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Özlem DEMIREL | 84.5 % |
| The Left median | 88.5 % |
| Lowest in the group | 44.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.3 % |
| Members | 47 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Özlem DEMIREL | 95.2 % |
| The Left median | 92.8 % |
| Lowest in the group | 81.9 % |
| Highest in the group | 96.9 % |
| Members | 47 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of The Left; 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 Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Employment and Social AffairsEMPL Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE Committee | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Türkiye Joint Parliamentary CommitteeD-TR Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Children’s RightsIG10-06 Intergroup / working group | Member | 19 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Trade UnionsIG10-24 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Subcommittee on Security and DefenceSEDE Subcommittee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 19 Jan 2025 |
| Delegation for relations with IranD-IR Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | 23 Sept 2025 |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 109
- Migration & asylum 73
- Justice, rule of law & rights 51
- Defence & security 47
- Digital, AI & data 24
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 15
- Transport & tourism 14
- EU budget & funds 13
- Economy & single market 13
- Health 5
- Trade & customs 5
- EU institutions & Parliament 3
- Climate & environment 2
- Energy 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.
63 contributions recorded; 17 on behalf of their group; 87 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 146
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 56
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 groups this term
- Group The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) The Left · Left · democratic socialism, communism
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 e994c83b5003 (27 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). “Özlem DEMIREL”. Member record. memberId 197468. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197468?page=102&vscope=all (retrieved 27 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197468. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197468?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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-197468,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Özlem DEMIREL}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197468?page=102&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197468?page=102&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-27},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197468. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197468. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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}
}