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
- 51.3 %ⓘ of 5 928 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.2 % · whole term, 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.
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.
Chamber median: 90.2 %
Compared with each group they sat in
| Group | Participation | With majority line | Against clear line | Abstention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renew 17 Jul 2024 – 19 Dec 2024 | 44.4 % of 516 median 96.3 % (−51.9 pts) | 96.9 % of 226 median 96.1 % (+0.8 pts) | 0.9 % of 218 | 0.4 % of 229 |
| No group 20 Jan 2025 – 7 Jul 2026 | 53.4 % of 4 841 median 86.7 % | no group line | no group line | 7.7 % of 2 583 |
| 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 |
- Whole term, 5 928 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.
Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
| Date | Decision and vote | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution) Amendment 4 to paragraph 32 | 304 for, 334 against, 38 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution) Separate vote on paragraph 17 | 554 for, 85 against, 41 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution) Amendment 3 to paragraph 11 | 146 for, 525 against, 7 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution) Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 2 | 214 for, 438 against, 25 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 Final vote on the draft Council decision | Consent given 616 for, 29 against, 36 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Temporary derogation from certain provisions of Regulations (EU) 2017/2226 and (EU) 2016/399 Final vote on the provisional agreement | Passed 572 for, 42 against, 67 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season Final vote on the provisional agreement | Passed 542 for, 109 against, 30 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season Proposal to vote on amendments | 126 for, 542 against, 3 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026 Final vote | Passed 531 for, 69 against, 79 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: — |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026 Motion for adjournment of the vote | 71 for, 539 against, 64 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: — |
| 7 Jul 2025 | Wednesday’s agenda – Request by The Left Group Wednesday’s agenda — Request by The Left Group | 308 for, 101 against, 0 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 381 for, 173 against, 13 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 31, adding text after recital D | 183 for, 380 against, 6 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 37, adding text after paragraph 20 | 184 for, 371 against, 14 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 36, adding text after paragraph 17 | 180 for, 381 against, 4 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 35 to paragraph 17 | 170 for, 379 against, 10 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 27, adding text after paragraph 16 | 67 for, 480 against, 19 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 26, adding text after paragraph 16 | 70 for, 476 against, 11 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 16 | 74 for, 478 against, 16 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 24 to paragraph 15 | 101 for, 424 against, 48 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 43 to paragraph 14 | 196 for, 360 against, 13 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 23 to paragraph 14 | 96 for, 419 against, 57 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 18 to paragraph 14 | 129 for, 386 against, 56 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 20, adding text after paragraph 12 | 62 for, 497 against, 15 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 11 to paragraph 12 | 78 for, 485 against, 7 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Paragraph 11 — part 2 | 378 for, 177 against, 12 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 42 to paragraph 9 | 175 for, 387 against, 9 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Paragraph 8 — part 2 | 389 for, 168 against, 12 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 17 to paragraph 8 | 173 for, 397 against, 4 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 30 to paragraph 8 | 166 for, 391 against, 17 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 9 to paragraph 8 | 74 for, 476 against, 22 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 16 to paragraph 7 | 156 for, 392 against, 27 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 6 | 106 for, 437 against, 30 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 6 | 100 for, 397 against, 71 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 5 | 168 for, 393 against, 14 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Paragraph 5 — part 1 | 381 for, 151 against, 44 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 4 to paragraph 3 | 50 for, 503 against, 25 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 41, adding text after paragraph 2 | 166 for, 367 against, 42 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 2 | 186 for, 378 against, 8 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 34, adding text after paragraph 2 | 181 for, 386 against, 7 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 33, adding text after paragraph 2 | 178 for, 383 against, 11 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 2 | 134 for, 410 against, 31 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal Amendment 32 to paragraph 1 | 168 for, 389 against, 14 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 418 for, 112 against, 45 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system Recital R — part 3 | 396 for, 163 against, 15 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system Recital R — part 2 | 405 for, 166 against, 7 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system Recital R — part 1 | 547 for, 10 against, 20 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system Amendment 3 to recital Q | 167 for, 405 against, 6 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system Amendment 2, adding text after recital A | 184 for, 376 against, 17 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system Separate vote on citation 13 | 397 for, 162 against, 21 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: — |
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" 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.
Work
Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.
Seats
| 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 |
| Delegation for relations with the Arab PeninsulaDARP Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | 22 Dec 2024 |
| Delegation for relations with the Korean PeninsulaDKOR Delegation | Substitute | 2 Apr 2025 | 7 Jul 2026 |
Dossiers
| 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)
- Justice, rule of law & rights 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- Digital, AI & data 1
- Economy & single market 1
- Foreign affairs 1
- Trade & customs 1
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.
Questions and motions, 2
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
| 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 | 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.
- Official source
- 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=82&seats=all&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=82&seats=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=82&seats=all&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}
}