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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

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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
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 36 205 for, 344 against, 17 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 36 202 for, 346 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 36 158 for, 398 against, 11 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Separate vote on paragraph 35 551 for, 12 against, 5 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 36 to paragraph 22 208 for, 264 against, 94 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 35 to paragraph 21 205 for, 262 against, 96 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 34 to paragraph 18 198 for, 354 against, 14 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Paragraph 9 — part 2 306 for, 225 against, 38 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Paragraph 9 — part 1 422 for, 83 against, 66 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 30 to paragraph 9 158 for, 374 against, 36 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 29 to paragraph 8 191 for, 371 against, 8 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 27 to paragraph 6 187 for, 380 against, 3 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 25 to paragraph 3 198 for, 366 against, 6 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Rights, support and protection of victims of crime Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 440 for, 49 against, 84 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The cases of human rights and environmental defenders Andrie Yunus and Muhammad Rosidi in Indonesia Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 469 for, 38 against, 62 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026The cases of human rights and environmental defenders Andrie Yunus and Muhammad Rosidi in Indonesia Amendment 1 to paragraph 6 87 for, 415 against, 65 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 480 for, 5 against, 83 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts Amendment 3 to paragraph 7 296 for, 252 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 4 184 for, 348 against, 28 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 4 — part 2 142 for, 380 against, 36 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 4 — part 1 155 for, 382 against, 26 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts Amendment 5 to paragraph 4 295 for, 189 against, 73 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 2 181 for, 338 against, 36 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 516 for, 14 against, 39 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 2, adding text after recital D 185 for, 371 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 1, adding text after recital D 184 for, 368 against, 14 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 8 to paragraph 12 106 for, 386 against, 77 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 7 to paragraph 12 165 for, 386 against, 18 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Paragraph 11 — part 2 435 for, 113 against, 23 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Paragraph 11 — part 1 502 for, 41 against, 28 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 6 to paragraph 7 180 for, 383 against, 5 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 5 195 for, 355 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 5 201 for, 347 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 3 to paragraph 4 178 for, 379 against, 12 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 2 72 for, 459 against, 37 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 1 240 for, 312 against, 20 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Periodic roadworthiness tests and technical roadside inspection (Roadworthiness package) Decision to open negotiations with the CouncilNegotiating mandate approved 369 for, 126 against, 84 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 on securitisation and a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation Decision to open negotiations with the CouncilNegotiating mandate approved 294 for, 194 against, 86 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
21 May 2026Amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions as regards requirements for securitisation exposures Decision to open negotiations with the CouncilNegotiating mandate approved 294 for, 192 against, 90 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 347 for, 165 against, 25 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Amendment 10, adding text after recital D 187 for, 440 against, 18 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Amendment 1, adding text after recital C 201 for, 438 against, 4 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Separate vote on citation 25 451 for, 145 against, 52 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Separate vote on citation 11 464 for, 134 against, 30 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Separate vote on citation 7 426 for, 192 against, 17 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Separate vote on paragraph 21 465 for, 122 against, 42 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Paragraph 19 — part 2 463 for, 151 against, 28 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Paragraph 19 — part 1 572 for, 37 against, 37 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Paragraph 15 — part 2 635 for, 4 against, 3 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response Amendment 4 to paragraph 15 184 for, 454 against, 6 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded 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=20&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=20&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=20&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}
}