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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
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Paragraph 9 — part 1 425 for, 199 against, 45 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 6 155 for, 435 against, 80 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Abstained
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 57, adding text after paragraph 5 568 for, 38 against, 64 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 60, adding text after paragraph 4 122 for, 465 against, 71 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 58, adding text after paragraph 4 93 for, 458 against, 103 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 3 197 for, 465 against, 5 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 88, adding text after paragraph 2 169 for, 471 against, 27 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 29, adding text after paragraph 2 192 for, 465 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 1 198 for, 467 against, 5 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 1 210 for, 439 against, 14 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 27 to paragraph 1 135 for, 480 against, 56 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Final vote — text as a wholePassed 440 for, 127 against, 104 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 3 to recital D 205 for, 456 against, 3 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 10 201 for, 453 against, 12 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 10 209 for, 444 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Separate vote on paragraph 10 369 for, 278 against, 17 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 7 196 for, 463 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Separate vote on paragraph 4 598 for, 56 against, 14 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 1 to paragraph 4 237 for, 361 against, 75 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 3 203 for, 445 against, 14 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 2 191 for, 458 against, 15 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Separate vote on paragraph 2 588 for, 58 against, 19 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 1 194 for, 467 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Temporary trade-liberalisation measures applicable to Armenian products Final votePassed 583 for, 49 against, 39 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
15 Sept 2026General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM): fishing in the GFCM Agreement area Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 580 for, 51 against, 39 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Implementation into Union law of measures adopted by regional fisheries management organisations Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 559 for, 48 against, 62 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sectors Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 467 for, 158 against, 41 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances Final votePassed 367 for, 240 against, 59 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances Amendment 6, adding text after Article 1; Decision (EU) 2015/1814 271 for, 376 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances Amendment 5 367 for, 291 against, 7 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances Amendment 4 391 for, 275 against, 7 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Final votePassed 433 for, 97 against, 146 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 88, adding text after Recital 3 165 for, 465 against, 36 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 83 to recital 1 195 for, 465 against, 16 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 87 to Article 7, paragraph 3 190 for, 459 against, 18 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 96 to Article 7, after paragraph 1 194 for, 467 against, 6 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 86 to Article 7 193 for, 472 against, 10 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 94 to Article 6, paragraph 3 194 for, 466 against, 10 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 93 to Article 4, after paragraph 2 193 for, 455 against, 10 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 35 to Article 3, paragraph 4 415 for, 247 against, 11 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 39 — part 2 439 for, 207 against, 22 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Final votePassed 464 for, 50 against, 159 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Abstained
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 102, adding text after paragraph 53 178 for, 463 against, 18 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 119, adding text after paragraph 50 198 for, 463 against, 3 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 116, adding text after recital 36 185 for, 480 against, 1 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 115, adding text after recital 14 189 for, 478 against, 2 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 99, adding text after recital 4 219 for, 439 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 98 to recital 3 204 for, 451 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 127 to Article 1 187 for, 461 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 128 to Article 1 174 for, 471 against, 19 abstainedPosition: 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 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.

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 e994c83b5003 (27 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
27 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=7&period=2024&vscope=all (retrieved 27 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 e994c83b5003 (27 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=7&period=2024&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=7&period=2024&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-27},
  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 e994c83b5003 (27 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}
}