Member
Tsvetelina PENKOVA
S&D · Bulgaria
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 ⓘ
80.9 %
4 793 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
S&D median: 89.9 % (−9.0 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
96.3 %
4 614 of 4 791 votes where their group had a line
S&D median: 96.3 % (±0.0 pts)
103 opposite (for ↔ against), 53 abstained against the line, 6 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Tsvetelina PENKOVA | 80.9 % |
| S&D median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 30.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 138 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Tsvetelina PENKOVA | 96.3 % |
| S&D median | 96.3 % |
| Lowest in the group | 81.9 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.4 % |
| Members | 138 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of S&D; 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.
Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
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 Economic and Monetary AffairsECON Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer ProtectionIMCO Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Vice-chair | 23 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary CommitteeD-ME Joint parliamentary committee | Vice-chair | 15 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyD-UK Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Partnership Committee, the EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association CommitteeDSCA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Sky and SpaceIG10-21 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Feb 2025 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 22 Jul 2024 |
| Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary CommitteeD-ME Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 27 Nov 2024 | 14 Jan 2025 |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 6
- Energy 5
- EU budget & funds 3
- Foreign affairs 2
- Climate & environment 1
- Health 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.
13 contributions recorded; 16 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Jun 2026 | Electrification Action Plan (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 19 Jan 2026 | The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 22 Oct 2025 | The ongoing assault on the democratic institutions and the rule of law in Bulgaria (topical debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 21 May 2025 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 13 Feb 2025 | Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 27 Nov 2024 | Rise of energy prices and fighting energy poverty (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 26 Nov 2024 | Full accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen Area: the urgent need to lift controls at internal land borders (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 26 Nov 2024 | Outcome of COP 29 and challenges for international climate policy (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 25 Nov 2024 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 6
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 26
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 group
- Group Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats S&D · Centre-left · social democracy
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 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). “Tsvetelina PENKOVA”. Member record. memberId 197845. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197845?amendments=all&page=117&vscope=all (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197845. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197845?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-197845,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Tsvetelina PENKOVA}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197845?amendments=all&page=117&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197845?amendments=all&page=117&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197845. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197845. 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}
}