Member
Rihards KOLS
ECR · Latvia
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 ⓘ
92.6 %
574 of 620 final votes while in office
ECR median: 91.9 % (+0.6 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
87.0 %
496 of 570 votes where their group had a line
ECR median: 87.7 % (−0.7 pts)
5 opposite (for ↔ against), 14 abstained against the line, 14 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Rihards KOLS | 92.6 % |
| ECR median | 91.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 51.0 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.8 % |
| Members | 79 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Rihards KOLS | 87.0 % |
| ECR median | 87.7 % |
| Lowest in the group | 46.1 % |
| Highest in the group | 94.6 % |
| Members | 79 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of ECR; 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 Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary CommitteeD-CL Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary CommitteeD-MX Joint parliamentary committee | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the MediterraneanDMED Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)IG10-22 Intergroup / working group | Vice-chair | 12 Mar 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 88
- Defence & security 32
- EU budget & funds 17
- Economy & single market 16
- Trade & customs 8
- Climate & environment 5
- EU institutions & Parliament 5
- Justice, rule of law & rights 5
- Migration & asylum 5
- Transport & tourism 5
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 4
- Energy 2
- Digital, AI & data 1
- Health 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.
72 contributions recorded, 14 written statements; 11 on behalf of their group; 76 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 79
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 62
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 European Conservatives and Reformists ECR · Right-wing · national conservatism, EU-critical
National delegation
- Delegation Latvia 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). “Rihards KOLS”. Member record. memberId 220871. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/220871?page=77&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/220871. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/220871?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-220871,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Rihards KOLS}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/220871?page=77&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/220871?page=77&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 220871. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/220871. 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}
}