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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
44.4 %ⓘ of 516 roll calls in office · chamber median 93.4 % · 2024 (from july), roll calls
With majority line
96.9 %ⓘ of 226 votes where the group had a line · Renew median 96.1 %
More facts (5)
National party
DPS Movement for Rights and Freedoms
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
2 of 218 votesⓘ
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 term2024 (from July)20252026
Custom dates

Roll-call participation ⓘ

44.4 %

229 of 516 roll calls while in office

Renew median: 96.3 % (−51.9 pts)

Chamber median: 93.4 %

With majority line ⓘ

96.9 %

219 of 226 votes where their group had a line

Renew median: 96.1 % (+0.8 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

0.9 %

2 of 218 votes where their group had a clear line

1 opposite (for ↔ against), 1 abstained against the line

Abstention ⓘ

0.4 %

1 of 229 votes cast

Participation 44.4 % — Renew median 96.3 %, 77 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 77 members of the Renew with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Elena YONCHEVA44.4 %
Renew median96.3 %
Lowest in the group38.0 %
Highest in the group99.8 %
Members77
With majority line 96.9 % — Renew median 96.1 %, 77 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 77 members of the Renew with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Elena YONCHEVA96.9 %
Renew median96.1 %
Lowest in the group77.6 %
Highest in the group99.0 %
Members77
  • 2024 (from July), 516 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of Renew; 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.
  • This member changed group during the term, but sat in Renew throughout this period; each vote counts them in the group of that day.

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
17 Sept 2026Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up Amendment 5 to paragraph 4 138 for, 468 against, 2 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up Paragraph 2 — part 2 461 for, 130 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up Amendment 4 to paragraph 2 128 for, 469 against, 14 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 1 248 for, 294 against, 60 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up Paragraph 1 — part 2 478 for, 117 against, 11 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up Amendment 2 to paragraph 1 134 for, 436 against, 35 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026The role of social, economic and environmental standards in safeguarding fair competition for all aquatic food products and improving food security Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 467 for, 92 against, 44 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Impact of social media and the online environment on young people Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 395 for, 136 against, 80 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026Impact of social media and the online environment on young people Recital AD — part 2 413 for, 143 against, 50 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026Impact of social media and the online environment on young people Recital AD — part 1 575 for, 13 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Impact of social media and the online environment on young people Paragraph 85 — part 2 403 for, 146 against, 50 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026Impact of social media and the online environment on young people Paragraph 85 — part 1 449 for, 100 against, 62 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026Impact of social media and the online environment on young people Paragraph 63 — part 3 401 for, 181 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Sept 2026An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 514 for, 61 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 55 197 for, 400 against, 9 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 29 189 for, 387 against, 23 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector Separate vote on paragraph 17 487 for, 45 against, 66 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Post-electoral repression in Zambia and the killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 562 for, 1 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 1 195 for, 373 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 374 for, 198 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro Amendment 5 to paragraph 8 145 for, 417 against, 24 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro Amendment 4 to paragraph 7 153 for, 424 against, 5 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Deteriorating situation of media freedom and freedom of expression in Hong Kong following the recent arrest of bookseller Leticia Wong and the convictions of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 459 for, 12 against, 86 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Sept 2026Deteriorating situation of media freedom and freedom of expression in Hong Kong following the recent arrest of bookseller Leticia Wong and the convictions of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung Separate vote on paragraph 3 517 for, 8 against, 31 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
16 Sept 2026Genetically modified maize MON 87460 Final vote on the motion for a resolutionObjection passed 433 for, 159 against, 10 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
16 Sept 2026Genetically modified soybean MON 94313 Final vote on the motion for a resolutionObjection passed 457 for, 184 against, 10 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
16 Sept 2026Genetically modified soybean GMB151 x DAS-44406-6 Final vote on the motion for a resolutionObjection passed 442 for, 184 against, 12 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 390 for, 218 against, 29 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Separate vote on citation 19 359 for, 210 against, 81 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Separate vote on citation 9 353 for, 204 against, 79 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Recital AC — part 2 311 for, 309 against, 21 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Recital AC — part 1 466 for, 128 against, 40 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Separate vote on recital AB 354 for, 205 against, 89 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Separate vote on recital AA 362 for, 208 against, 79 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Separate vote on recital Z 431 for, 165 against, 50 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Recital J — part 2 335 for, 279 against, 23 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Recital J — part 1 509 for, 115 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Separate vote on recital D 593 for, 37 against, 16 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Recital B — part 2 411 for, 213 against, 21 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Recital B — part 1 395 for, 179 against, 63 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 63 — part 3 351 for, 272 against, 28 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 63 — part 2 429 for, 153 against, 69 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 63 — part 1 460 for, 129 against, 64 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 62 — part 3 325 for, 296 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 62 — part 2 446 for, 138 against, 59 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 62 — part 1 450 for, 168 against, 37 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Separate vote on paragraph 60 386 for, 230 against, 40 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 48 — part 3 322 for, 313 against, 19 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 48 — part 2 409 for, 150 against, 79 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
16 Sept 2026Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions Paragraph 48 — part 1 510 for, 78 against, 54 abstainedPosition: For 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 15 of 22 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.
SittingRoll callsVoted in
17 Jul 20242321
18 Jul 202410
16 Sept 202420
18 Sept 202420
19 Sept 2024920
7 Oct 202420
8 Oct 202411
9 Oct 20241818
10 Oct 202440
21 Oct 202420
22 Oct 2024100
23 Oct 2024129127
24 Oct 2024130
13 Nov 202420
14 Nov 20243633
25 Nov 202420
26 Nov 20241818
27 Nov 20241111
28 Nov 2024570
17 Dec 2024130
18 Dec 2024330
19 Dec 2024450

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.

20 contributions recorded; 25 minutes of speaking time.

Show all 20 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 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=3&period=2024&vscope=all (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=3&period=2024&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=3&period=2024&vscope=all},
  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}
}