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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
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 18, adding text after paragraph 37 103 for, 470 against, 83 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 70, adding text after paragraph 36 99 for, 475 against, 81 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 36 85 for, 469 against, 105 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Separate vote on paragraph 36 545 for, 59 against, 54 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Separate vote on paragraph 29 562 for, 82 against, 12 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Separate vote on paragraph 28 547 for, 63 against, 44 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 67, adding text after paragraph 26 189 for, 436 against, 23 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 26 254 for, 359 against, 44 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Paragraph 26 — part 2 455 for, 125 against, 73 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Paragraph 26 — part 1 561 for, 77 against, 12 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 13 to paragraph 26 131 for, 397 against, 120 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 12 to paragraph 26 77 for, 503 against, 75 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 88, adding text after paragraph 21 230 for, 408 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 87, adding text after paragraph 21 62 for, 513 against, 82 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 51, adding text after paragraph 13 195 for, 439 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Separate vote on paragraph 13 346 for, 281 against, 25 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 86, adding text after paragraph 12 57 for, 523 against, 78 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 10 to paragraph 12 92 for, 508 against, 51 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 85, adding text after paragraph 11 168 for, 434 against, 50 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 8 to paragraph 10 128 for, 462 against, 64 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Paragraph 5 — part 2 445 for, 166 against, 42 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Paragraph 5 — part 1 481 for, 132 against, 38 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 6 to paragraph 5 77 for, 455 against, 121 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Paragraph 4 — part 3 439 for, 198 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Paragraph 4 — part 2 515 for, 93 against, 41 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Paragraph 4 — part 1 569 for, 70 against, 17 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 5 to paragraph 4 106 for, 440 against, 107 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 2 61 for, 548 against, 41 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 2 56 for, 558 against, 35 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 Amendment 50 to paragraph 2 122 for, 474 against, 53 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
28 Apr 2026Extension of the term of office of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Extension of the term of office of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield 422 for, 202 against, 9 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
27 Apr 2026Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the ESN Group – Limiting EU legislation Wednesday’s agenda — Request by the ESN Group — Limiting EU legislation 127 for, 338 against, 5 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
27 Apr 2026Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the PfE Group – ‘One Europe, one market’ Tuesday’s agenda — Request by the PfE Group — ‘One Europe, one market’ 132 for, 327 against, 3 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 371 for, 146 against, 80 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/007 BE/Casa - Belgium Final vote on the motion for a resolutionPassed 575 for, 48 against, 10 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/005 AT/KTM - Austria Final vote on the motion for a resolutionPassed 584 for, 39 against, 13 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026EU-China Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 603 for, 3 against, 33 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 605 for, 3 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026EU-Lebanon Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation setting, participation of Lebanon in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 618 for, 6 against, 5 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Final votePassed 569 for, 45 against, 23 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 89 to Article 1 189 for, 438 against, 6 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 102 to Article 1 195 for, 439 against, 1 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 107 to Article 1 66 for, 552 against, 18 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 101 to Article 1 196 for, 431 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 106 to Article 1 67 for, 540 against, 33 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 108 to Article 1 195 for, 433 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 105 to Article 1 76 for, 542 against, 15 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 100 to Article 1 196 for, 433 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 99 to Article 1 203 for, 426 against, 4 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
26 Mar 2026Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) Amendment 98 to Article 1 199 for, 436 against, 2 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 7669c786bb14 (1 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
1 October 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=34&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 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 7669c786bb14 (1 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-197842,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Elena YONCHEVA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=34&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=34&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-10-01},
  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 7669c786bb14 (1 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}
}