Member

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: 38.4 %ⓘ of 2 521 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.9 % · 2026, roll calls Changed group in this period: not compared with a single group’s median.
With majority line: —ⓘ The non-attached have no group line.

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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

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.

Period Whole term 2024 (from July)2025 2026

Custom dates

Votes Final votes261 All roll calls2 521

Roll-call participation ⓘ

38.4 %

968 of 2 521 roll calls while in office

Chamber median: 90.9 %

With majority lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Against clear lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Abstention ⓘ

3.4 %

33 of 968 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.

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.
Group	Participation	With majority line	Against clear line	Abstention
No group 20 Jan 2026 – 7 Jul 2026	37.9 % of 1 950 median 86.7 %	no group line	no group line	1.9 % of 739
ECR 8 Jul 2026 – 17 Sept 2026	40.1 % of 571 median 97.7 % (−57.6 pts)	78.2 % of 229 median 89.7 % (−11.5 pts)	20.3 % of 207	8.3 % of 229

2026, 2 521 roll-call votes.
“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, 620

Export

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

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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.
Date	Decision	Result	Position	Majority line
23 Oct 2024	Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States	Passed 444 for, 179 against, 20 abstained	Position: For	Majority line: For
23 Oct 2024	General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections	Resolution rejected 233 for, 360 against, 59 abstained	Position: For ≠ group	Majority line: Against
22 Oct 2024	Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine	Passed 518 for, 56 against, 61 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
22 Oct 2024	Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023	Passed 531 for, 91 against, 35 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
22 Oct 2024	Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies	Passed 522 for, 115 against, 25 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
22 Oct 2024	Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch	Passed 601 for, 47 against, 17 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
22 Oct 2024	2022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and Council	Passed 431 for, 131 against, 83 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
10 Oct 2024	The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas	Adopted 540 for, 23 against, 47 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
9 Oct 2024	Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration	Adopted 508 for, 53 against, 104 abstained	Position: For	Majority line: For
9 Oct 2024	The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia	Adopted 495 for, 73 against, 86 abstained	Position: For	Majority line: For
8 Oct 2024	Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France further to natural disasters that occurred in 2023	Passed 632 for, 7 against, 3 abstained	Position: For	Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024	EU/USA Agreement on the launch of Galileo satellites from U.S. Territory	Consent given 582 for, 16 against, 17 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024	The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’	Adopted 565 for, 8 against, 43 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024	The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus	Adopted 549 for, 21 against, 37 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024	The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in Cuba	Adopted 380 for, 182 against, 51 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024	Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States	Adopted 425 for, 131 against, 63 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024	Situation in Venezuela	Adopted 309 for, 201 against, 12 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
18 Sept 2024	Maximum residue levels for carbendazim and thiophanate-methyl	Objection passed 516 for, 129 against, 27 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
18 Sept 2024	Maximum residue levels for cyproconazole	Objection passed 522 for, 127 against, 28 abstained	Position: No vote recorded	Majority line: For
17 Jul 2024	The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine	Adopted 495 for, 137 against, 47 abstained	Position: 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 13 of 34 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

Roll calls held at each sitting while in office and how many of them the member voted in.
Sitting	Roll calls	Voted in
20 Jan 2026	67	65
21 Jan 2026	112	40
22 Jan 2026	58	57
9 Feb 2026	2	1
10 Feb 2026	38	37
11 Feb 2026	13	11
12 Feb 2026	141	113
24 Feb 2026	43	0
9 Mar 2026	1	0
10 Mar 2026	197	32
11 Mar 2026	60	55
12 Mar 2026	34	0
25 Mar 2026	3	2
26 Mar 2026	69	68
27 Apr 2026	2	0
28 Apr 2026	225	0
29 Apr 2026	296	0
30 Apr 2026	68	0
18 May 2026	4	4
19 May 2026	3	3
20 May 2026	96	65
21 May 2026	98	0
15 Jun 2026	2	2
16 Jun 2026	40	37
17 Jun 2026	127	93
18 Jun 2026	77	0
6 Jul 2026	2	0
7 Jul 2026	72	54
8 Jul 2026	144	60
9 Jul 2026	67	0
14 Sept 2026	1	0
15 Sept 2026	155	123
16 Sept 2026	80	46
17 Sept 2026	124	0

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.
Select	Member	Group	Country	Agreement	Baseline
Select Sigrid FRIIS	Sigrid FRIIS	Renew	Denmark	97 % of 225 shared	92 %
Select Anna STÜRGKH	Anna STÜRGKH	Renew	Austria	97 % of 210 shared	92 %
Select Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY	Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY	Renew	Netherlands	97 % of 229 shared	92 %
Select Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE	Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE	Renew	Netherlands	96 % of 228 shared	92 %
Select Marjan ŠAREC	Marjan ŠAREC	Renew	Slovenia	96 % of 227 shared	92 %
Select Hristo PETROV	Hristo PETROV	Renew	Bulgaria	96 % of 227 shared	92 %
Select Brigitte VAN DEN BERG	Brigitte VAN DEN BERG	Renew	Netherlands	96 % of 226 shared	92 %
Select Dan BARNA	Dan BARNA	Renew	Romania	96 % of 225 shared	92 %
Select Jana TOOM	Jana TOOM	Renew	Estonia	96 % of 224 shared	92 %
Select Dainius ŽALIMAS	Dainius ŽALIMAS	Renew	Lithuania	96 % of 228 shared	92 %

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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).
Select	Member	Group	Country	Agreement	Baseline
Select Taner KABILOV	Taner KABILOV changed group	ECR	Bulgaria	70 % of 1 957 shared	44 %
Select Jérémy DECERLE	Jérémy DECERLE	Renew	France	61 % of 1 457 shared	33 %
Select Eleonora MELETI	Eleonora MELETI	EPP	Greece	61 % of 2 503 shared	39 %
Select Gabriella GERZSENYI	Gabriella GERZSENYI	EPP	Hungary	60 % of 1 507 shared	41 %
Select Victor NEGRESCU	Victor NEGRESCU	S&D	Romania	60 % of 2 690 shared	37 %
Select Vangelis MEIMARAKIS	Vangelis MEIMARAKIS	EPP	Greece	59 % of 2 822 shared	39 %
Select Tsvetelina PENKOVA	Tsvetelina PENKOVA	S&D	Bulgaria	59 % of 2 623 shared	37 %
Select Dimitris TSIODRAS	Dimitris TSIODRAS	EPP	Greece	59 % of 2 839 shared	38 %
Select Emil RADEV	Emil RADEV	EPP	Bulgaria	59 % of 2 433 shared	38 %
Select Dragoş BENEA	Dragoş BENEA	S&D	Romania	59 % of 1 985 shared	38 %

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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).
Body	Role	From	To
Committee on Employment and Social AffairsEMPL Committee	Member	14 Sept 2026	now
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee	Substitute	2 Sept 2026	now
Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the MediterraneanDMED Parliamentary assembly	Substitute	15 Jul 2026	now
Committee on DevelopmentDEVE Committee	Substitute	19 Jul 2024	22 Dec 2024
Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee	Member	23 Jan 2025	7 Jul 2026
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee	Member	19 Jul 2024	22 Dec 2024
Subcommittee on Human RightsDROI Subcommittee	Substitute	19 Jul 2024	22 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN Delegation	Member	19 Sept 2024	22 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with IsraelD-IL Delegation	Substitute	19 Sept 2024	22 Dec 2024
Delegation for relations with the Arab PeninsulaDARP Delegation	Member	31 Mar 2025	7 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.
Dossier	Role	Committee	Date
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 rapporteur	LIBE	18 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.

20 contributions recorded; 25 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.
Date	Debate	Kind	Verbatim
7 Jul 2026	EU-Mexico (joint debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
20 May 2026	Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
25 Mar 2026	Energy security, independence and supply in the geopolitical context - ensuring market stability and affordable energy for industry and citizens (debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
11 Mar 2026	Building Europe's clean, independent and secure energy following the 2026 North Sea Summit (debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
11 Feb 2026	Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
16 Dec 2025	Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
25 Nov 2025	Communication on the European Democracy Shield (debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
7 Oct 2025	The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
10 Sept 2025	State of the Union (debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read
8 Jul 2025	Situation in the Middle East (debate)	Speech · 1 min	Read

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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.
Date	Title	Kind	Answer
13 Jul 2026	Alleged unlawful disclosure and misuse of PNR data in Bulgaria E-10-2026-002896	Written questionwith 1 co-author	Not yet answered
3 Mar 2026	Three years since the railway accident in Tempi, Greece O-10-2026-000010	Oral questionwith 35 co-authors	Not yet answered

Amendments tabled in committee, 3

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.
Date	Text amended	Committee	Amendments
13 Jul 2026	Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790918	AGRI	2
13 Jul 2026	Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790919	AGRI	1
13 Jul 2026	Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790956	AGRI	1

Connections

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

Political groups this term

Group European Conservatives and Reformists ECR · Right-wing · national conservatism, EU-critical
Group Non-attached members No group · Not a group — members sitting without affiliation
Group Renew Europe Renew · Centre · liberalism, pro-Europeanism

National delegation

Delegation Bulgaria National delegation

Sources & citation

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

Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=13&period=2026&vscope=final
Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament
Data source: EP Open Data: member record
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: 26 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=13&period=2026&vscope=final (retrieved 26 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 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-197842,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Elena YONCHEVA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=13&period=2026&vscope=final}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=13&period=2026&vscope=final},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  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 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}
}