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Elena YONCHEVA

ECR · Bulgaria

Group
ECR Changed group: Renew 16 Jul 2024 – 22 Dec 2024 → No group 23 Dec 2024 – 7 Jul 2026 → ECR since 8 Jul 2026
Country
Bulgaria
Roll-call participation
59.2 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes Changed group in this period: not compared with a single group’s median.
With majority line
—ⓘ The non-attached have no group line.
More facts (5)
National party
DPS Movement for Rights and Freedoms
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
—ⓘ The non-attached have no group line.
Committees
EMPL, LIBE (substitute)
Member id
197842
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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 ⓘ

59.2 %

367 of 620 final votes while in office

Chamber median: 90.6 %

With majority lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Against clear lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Abstention ⓘ

6.5 %

24 of 367 votes cast

Compared with each group they sat in

The member’s record in each group they sat in during the period, over the roll calls held while they sat in it (dates: the first and last of them). Each figure with its denominator: participation of the roll calls held, majority line of the votes where the group had one, against clear line of the votes where it had a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting), abstention of the votes cast. Median: that group’s median over the same roll calls, with the member’s difference in percentage points. A figure over fewer than 50 votes is shown as a count.
GroupParticipationWith majority lineAgainst clear lineAbstention
Renew 17 Jul 2024 – 19 Dec 202439.4 % of 66 median 95.5 % (−56.1 pts)18 of 23 median 90.9 %1 of 18 0 of 26
No group 21 Jan 2025 – 7 Jul 202661.8 % of 497 median 89.3 %no group lineno group line6.2 % of 307
ECR 8 Jul 2026 – 17 Sept 202659.6 % of 57 median 96.5 % (−36.8 pts)26 of 34 median 87.7 %6 of 28 5 of 34
  • Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name.
  • “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.
  • This member changed group in this period: each vote counts them in the group of that day, and they are compared with each group over the roll calls held while they sat in it — not with one group’s median.
  • The non-attached have no group line: loyalty and votes against a clear line are not computed.

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
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 26 to paragraph 23 219 for, 421 against, 24 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 25 to paragraph 21 70 for, 449 against, 152 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 18 68 for, 523 against, 60 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 18 73 for, 544 against, 29 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Paragraph 18 — part 2 474 for, 145 against, 48 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 17 70 for, 477 against, 102 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Separate vote on paragraph 15 480 for, 137 against, 52 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 14 86 for, 496 against, 89 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 13 159 for, 461 against, 46 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 13 188 for, 456 against, 33 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Separate vote on paragraph 12 423 for, 160 against, 86 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 23 to paragraph 12 143 for, 492 against, 36 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 11 182 for, 439 against, 53 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Separate vote on paragraph 10 433 for, 175 against, 62 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 22, adding text after paragraph 9 83 for, 495 against, 93 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 9 91 for, 523 against, 53 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 20, adding text after paragraph 7 122 for, 481 against, 71 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Paragraph 6 — part 4 393 for, 234 against, 44 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Paragraph 5 — part 3 428 for, 195 against, 47 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Paragraph 5 — part 2 494 for, 88 against, 92 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Paragraph 5 — part 1 430 for, 133 against, 102 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 19 to paragraph 5 225 for, 394 against, 54 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 4 100 for, 480 against, 91 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 4 113 for, 523 against, 35 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Separate vote on paragraph 4 535 for, 78 against, 54 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 185 for, 477 against, 15 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Paragraph 3 — part 2 474 for, 135 against, 62 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Paragraph 3 — part 1 603 for, 29 against, 35 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Separate vote on paragraph 2 610 for, 26 against, 31 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Separate vote on paragraph 1 622 for, 32 against, 15 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 18, adding text before paragraph 1 86 for, 500 against, 84 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 17, adding text before paragraph 1 112 for, 535 against, 28 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 16, adding text before paragraph 1 141 for, 508 against, 20 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 15, adding text before paragraph 1 99 for, 510 against, 46 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggression Amendment 14, adding text before paragraph 1 145 for, 499 against, 22 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 351 for, 260 against, 70 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 31 — part 6 444 for, 204 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 31 — part 4 339 for, 325 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 31 — part 3 311 for, 367 against, 4 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 29 — part 2 334 for, 247 against, 98 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 25 — part 2 288 for, 320 against, 69 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 25 — part 1 340 for, 274 against, 60 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 24 — part 2 338 for, 278 against, 59 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 23 — part 2 299 for, 347 against, 34 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 19 — part 2 317 for, 352 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 17 — part 3 317 for, 343 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 17 — part 2 452 for, 194 against, 21 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 17 — part 1 544 for, 109 against, 25 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 8 461 for, 98 against, 121 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
12 Mar 2025European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025 Paragraph 7 — part 2 312 for, 359 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —

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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 31 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 the same group (on the day of each vote)

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
Sigrid FRIIS RenewDenmark97 % of 225 shared92 %
Anna STÜRGKH RenewAustria97 % of 210 shared92 %
Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY RenewNetherlands97 % of 229 shared92 %
Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE RenewNetherlands96 % of 228 shared92 %
Marjan ŠAREC RenewSlovenia96 % of 227 shared92 %
Hristo PETROV RenewBulgaria96 % of 227 shared92 %
Brigitte VAN DEN BERG RenewNetherlands96 % of 226 shared92 %
Dan BARNA RenewRomania96 % of 225 shared92 %
Jana TOOM RenewEstonia96 % of 224 shared92 %
Dainius ŽALIMAS RenewLithuania96 % of 228 shared92 %

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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
Taner KABILOV changed group ECRBulgaria70 % of 1 957 shared44 %
Jérémy DECERLE RenewFrance61 % of 1 457 shared33 %
Eleonora MELETI EPPGreece61 % of 2 503 shared39 %
Gabriella GERZSENYI EPPHungary60 % of 1 507 shared41 %
Victor NEGRESCU S&DRomania60 % of 2 690 shared37 %
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS EPPGreece59 % of 2 822 shared39 %
Tsvetelina PENKOVA S&DBulgaria59 % of 2 623 shared37 %
Dimitris TSIODRAS EPPGreece59 % of 2 839 shared38 %
Emil RADEV EPPBulgaria59 % of 2 433 shared38 %
Dragoş BENEA S&DRomania59 % of 1 985 shared38 %

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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 Employment and Social AffairsEMPL CommitteeMember14 Sept 2026now
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE CommitteeSubstitute2 Sept 2026now
Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the MediterraneanDMED Parliamentary assemblySubstitute15 Jul 2026now
Committee on DevelopmentDEVE CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 202422 Dec 2024
Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE CommitteeMember23 Jan 20257 Jul 2026
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE CommitteeMember19 Jul 202422 Dec 2024
Subcommittee on Human RightsDROI SubcommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 202422 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN DelegationMember19 Sept 202422 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with IsraelD-IL DelegationSubstitute19 Sept 202422 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with the Arab PeninsulaDARP DelegationMember31 Mar 20257 Jul 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
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings, and on enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes and amending Regulation (EU) 2016/794 -2023/0438(COD).Shadow rapporteurLIBE18 Sept 2024

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.

21 contributions recorded; 26 minutes of speaking time.

Show all 21 recent contributions

Questions and motions, 2

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
13 Jul 2026Alleged unlawful disclosure and misuse of PNR data in Bulgaria E-10-2026-002896Written questionwith 1 co-authorNot yet answered
3 Mar 2026Three years since the railway accident in Tempi, Greece O-10-2026-000010Oral questionwith 35 co-authorsNot yet answered

Amendments tabled in committee, 3

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

National delegation

  • Delegation Bulgaria 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). “Elena YONCHEVA”. Member record. memberId 197842. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=105&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 30 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197842. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197842?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-197842,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Elena YONCHEVA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=105&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=105&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-30},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 197842. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197842. 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}
}