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Dragoş BENEA

S&D · Romania

Group
S&D
Country
Romania
Roll-call participation
65.5 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
With majority line
94.6 %ⓘ of 406 votes where the group had a line · S&D median 97.1 %
More facts (5)
National party
PSD Partidul Social Democrat
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
21 of 403 votesⓘ
Committees
ECON (substitute), REGI (chair)
Member id
197658
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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 ⓘ

65.5 %

406 of 620 final votes while in office

S&D median: 89.5 % (−24.0 pts)

Chamber median: 90.6 %

With majority line ⓘ

94.6 %

384 of 406 votes where their group had a line

S&D median: 97.1 % (−2.5 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

5.2 %

21 of 403 votes where their group had a clear line

17 opposite (for ↔ against), 4 abstained against the line

Abstention ⓘ

1.5 %

6 of 406 votes cast

Participation 65.5 % — S&D median 89.5 %, 137 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 137 members of the S&D with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Dragoş BENEA65.5 %
S&D median89.5 %
Lowest in the group48.1 %
Highest in the group99.8 %
Members137
With majority line 94.6 % — S&D median 97.1 %, 137 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 137 members of the S&D with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Dragoş BENEA94.6 %
S&D median97.1 %
Lowest in the group86.7 %
Highest in the group99.8 %
Members137
  • Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of S&D; 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
22 Jan 2026Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania Paragraph 10 — part 1 427 for, 161 against, 21 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania Separate vote on paragraph 9 413 for, 158 against, 39 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania Separate vote on paragraph 8 442 for, 132 against, 34 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania Separate vote on paragraph 7 405 for, 163 against, 41 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania Separate vote on paragraph 6 424 for, 158 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania Paragraph 5 — part 2 417 for, 158 against, 34 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania Paragraph 5 — part 1 430 for, 145 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania Separate vote on paragraph 4 431 for, 140 against, 32 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 562 for, 9 against, 57 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 29 165 for, 397 against, 60 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 18, adding text after paragraph 12 62 for, 521 against, 43 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 12 72 for, 461 against, 91 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 5 224 for, 381 against, 18 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 5 225 for, 375 against, 31 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 5 226 for, 373 against, 30 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 1 257 for, 330 against, 40 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 1 155 for, 358 against, 115 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 1 262 for, 308 against, 54 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Brutal repression against protesters in Iran Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 1 128 for, 423 against, 68 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 471 for, 68 against, 71 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 2 to recital A 187 for, 428 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 115 186 for, 418 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 103 214 for, 407 against, 10 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 103 252 for, 373 against, 6 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 7 to paragraph 103 213 for, 401 against, 18 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Separate vote on paragraph 98 459 for, 140 against, 34 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 92 211 for, 410 against, 10 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 5 to paragraph 66 175 for, 436 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 4 to paragraph 59 130 for, 473 against, 30 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 11 207 for, 406 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Paragraph 4 — part 3 426 for, 182 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 3 426 for, 180 against, 24 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Choice of performance indicators for audit and budgetary control in the context of financing measures to support the implementation of future European competitiveness Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 318 for, 247 against, 67 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026Choice of performance indicators for audit and budgetary control in the context of financing measures to support the implementation of future European competitiveness Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 35 364 for, 258 against, 5 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026Choice of performance indicators for audit and budgetary control in the context of financing measures to support the implementation of future European competitiveness Amendment 1 to paragraph 2 343 for, 277 against, 14 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026Drones and new systems of warfare – the EU’s need to adapt to be fit for today’s security challenges Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 483 for, 68 against, 76 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Conviction and imminent sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 503 for, 9 against, 100 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Case of Joseph Figueira Martin in the Central African Republic Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 582 for, 0 against, 35 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Presidential elections in Honduras, the non-recognition of the outcome by the incumbent administration and the attacks on opposition members of the National Assembly Amendment 5, adding text after recital A 215 for, 362 against, 39 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Presidential elections in Honduras, the non-recognition of the outcome by the incumbent administration and the attacks on opposition members of the National Assembly Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 6 491 for, 51 against, 72 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
22 Jan 2026Presidential elections in Honduras, the non-recognition of the outcome by the incumbent administration and the attacks on opposition members of the National Assembly Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 3 98 for, 464 against, 46 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
22 Jan 2026Motion of censure on the Commission Final vote on the motion for a resolutionRejected 165 for, 390 against, 10 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 Jan 2026Addressing impunity through EU sanctions, including the EU Global Human Rights sanctions regime (so-called ‘EU Magnitsky Act’) Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 440 for, 127 against, 59 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
21 Jan 2026Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 421 for, 120 against, 108 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
21 Jan 2026Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 Recital O — part 2 492 for, 105 against, 48 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
21 Jan 2026Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 Amendment 2, adding text after recital M 240 for, 384 against, 7 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
21 Jan 2026Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 Amendment 1, adding text after recital M 244 for, 384 against, 28 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
21 Jan 2026Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 Amendment 48, adding text after paragraph 83 94 for, 489 against, 60 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
21 Jan 2026Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 Amendment 46, adding text after paragraph 83 90 for, 495 against, 61 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
21 Jan 2026Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 Amendment 32, adding text after paragraph 81 360 for, 283 against, 11 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against

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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 28 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 S&D

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
Claudiu MANDA S&DRomania99 % of 1 770 shared93 %
Gabriela FIREA S&DRomania99 % of 2 470 shared93 %
Gheorghe CÂRCIU S&DRomania99 % of 2 439 shared93 %
Mihai TUDOSE S&DRomania99 % of 2 841 shared93 %
Ştefan MUŞOIU S&DRomania99 % of 2 997 shared93 %
Victor NEGRESCU S&DRomania98 % of 3 084 shared93 %
Andi CRISTEA S&DRomania98 % of 3 151 shared93 %
Dan NICA S&DRomania96 % of 2 663 shared93 %
Vasile DÎNCU S&DRomania95 % of 3 191 shared93 %
Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ S&DLithuania94 % of 3 370 shared93 %

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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
Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group RenewItaly92 % of 1 157 shared86 %
Pina PICIERNO changed group RenewItaly90 % of 203 shared86 %
Jérémy DECERLE RenewFrance90 % of 1 676 shared86 %
Dainius ŽALIMAS RenewLithuania89 % of 3 227 shared86 %
Bernard GUETTA RenewFrance89 % of 3 066 shared86 %
Valérie DEVAUX RenewFrance89 % of 3 207 shared86 %
Marjan ŠAREC RenewSlovenia89 % of 3 161 shared86 %
Valérie HAYER RenewFrance89 % of 3 503 shared86 %
Nathalie LOISEAU RenewFrance89 % of 2 755 shared86 %
Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE RenewBelgium89 % of 2 736 shared86 %

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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 CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI CommitteeChair23 Jul 2024now
Delegation for relations with MercosurDMER DelegationSubstitute19 Sept 2024now
Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assemblyMember19 Sept 2024now
Intergroup on the Future of Education and Skills for a Competitive EuropeIG10-14 Intergroup / working groupMember29 Jan 2025now
Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI CommitteeMember19 Jul 202422 Jul 2024

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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
Cohesion policy in the EU’s eastern border regions: strengthening territorial resilience and cross-border cooperationShadow rapporteurREGI24 Jun 2026
No dossier namedOpinion rapporteurREGI1 Dec 2025
Amending Regulations (EU) 2021/1058 and (EU) 2021/1056 as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term reviewRapporteurREGI10 Jun 2025
Report named: Opinion on BUDG INI report on a a revamped long -term budgetOpinion rapporteurREGI18 Nov 2024
BUDG own - initiative reportShadow rapporteur for an opinionREGI22 Oct 2024
No dossier namedCommittee chairREGI22 Jul 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.

5 contributions recorded; 10 minutes of speaking time.

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Questions and motions, 4

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

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Amendments tabled in committee, 28

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

Date: of the amendment document. Text amended: the dossier and the document’s id. Committee: where the amendments were tabled. Amendments: how many in the document are the member’s.
DateText amendedCommitteeAmendments
16 Sept 2026Establishing the European Fund for Regional Development including for European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg) and the Cohesion Fund as part of the Fund set out in Regulation (EU) […] [NRP] and establishing conditions for the implementation of the Union support to regional development from 2028 to 2034 REGI-AM-792057 REGI10
7 Sept 2026Establishing the European Fund for Regional Development including for European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg) and the Cohesion Fund as part of the Fund set out in Regulation (EU) […] [NRP] and establishing conditions for the implementation of the Union support to regional development from 2028 to 2034 REGI-AM-792058 REGI7
27 Aug 2026Cohesion policy in the EU’s eastern border regions: strengthening territorial resilience and cross-border cooperation REGI-AM-791869 REGI17
23 Jul 2026Cohesion policy in the EU’s eastern border regions: strengthening territorial resilienceand cross-border cooperation REGI-AM-791870 REGI3
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790097 CJ712
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790098 CJ714
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790099 CJ7113
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790100 CJ716
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790101 CJ713
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790102 CJ719

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Connections

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

Political group

National delegation

  • Delegation Romania 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 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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
2 October 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Dragoş BENEA”. Member record. memberId 197658. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197658?page=47&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 2 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197658. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197658?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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-197658,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Dragoş BENEA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197658?page=47&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197658?page=47&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-10-02},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 197658. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197658. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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}
}