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 ⓘ
92.7 %
5 498 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
ECR median: 91.6 % (+1.1 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
88.4 %
4 846 of 5 481 votes where their group had a line
ECR median: 91.1 % (−2.7 pts)
204 opposite (for ↔ against), 175 abstained against the line, 32 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Rihards KOLS | 92.7 % |
| ECR median | 91.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 47.1 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.7 % |
| Members | 79 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Rihards KOLS | 88.4 % |
| ECR median | 91.1 % |
| Lowest in the group | 66.8 % |
| Highest in the group | 93.7 % |
| Members | 79 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. 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 final roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
| Date | Decision | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Sept 2025 | Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union | Adopted 407 for, 161 against, 97 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisis | Adopted 462 for, 142 against, 63 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policy | Adopted 393 for, 145 against, 123 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Possibilities for simplification of cohesion funds | Adopted 513 for, 111 against, 40 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interference | Adopted 490 for, 65 against, 86 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles | Passed 431 for, 145 against, 76 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Sept 2025 | EU-Brazil Agreement: cooperation with and through Europol and the Federal Police of Brazil | Consent given 606 for, 5 against, 19 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Sept 2025 | EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement | Consent given 473 for, 114 against, 58 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Sept 2025 | EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (Resolution) | Adopted 434 for, 49 against, 168 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Public procurement | Adopted 432 for, 95 against, 124 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Sept 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Ukraine | Adopted 418 for, 135 against, 41 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 as regards obligations of economic operators concerning battery due diligence policies | Passed 542 for, 97 against, 12 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Motion of censure on the Commission | Rejected 175 for, 360 against, 18 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Case of Ryan Cornelius in Dubai | Adopted 511 for, 50 against, 75 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Arbitrary arrest and torture of Belgian-Portuguese researcher Joseph Figueira Martin in the Central African Republic | Adopted 617 for, 4 against, 18 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus | Adopted 625 for, 7 against, 10 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness | Adopted 494 for, 83 against, 71 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions | Adopted 523 for, 75 against, 14 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | European Climate Law | Urgent procedure refused 300 for, 379 against, 8 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 on certain measures for the purpose of the conservation of fish stocks in relation to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing | Passed 681 for, 4 against, 4 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024 | Passed 534 for, 102 against, 56 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Moldova relating to floods that occurred in September 2024 and Bosnia and Herzegovina relating to floods that occurred in October 2024 | Passed 643 for, 13 against, 35 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Application EGF/2025/000 TA 2025 - Technical assistance at the initiative of the Commission | Passed 574 for, 63 against, 56 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add certain countries to the list of high-risk third countries, and to remove other countries from that list | Objection failed 264 for, 369 against, 55 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Deforestation Regulation - list of countries presenting a low or high risk | Objection passed 373 for, 289 against, 26 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports | Adopted 619 for, 26 against, 46 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Albania | Adopted 502 for, 120 against, 64 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina | Adopted 495 for, 130 against, 63 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on North Macedonia | Adopted 461 for, 121 against, 107 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: Abstained |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia | Adopted 490 for, 147 against, 49 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum | Adopted 422 for, 219 against, 31 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Jul 2025 | The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civilians | Adopted 507 for, 77 against, 45 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026 | Passed 531 for, 69 against, 79 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season | Passed 542 for, 109 against, 30 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Temporary derogation from certain provisions of Regulations (EU) 2017/2226 and (EU) 2016/399 | Passed 572 for, 42 against, 67 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | VAT: taxable persons, special scheme and special arrangements for declaration and payment, relating to distance sales of imported goods | Passed 623 for, 26 against, 28 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 | Consent given 616 for, 29 against, 36 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution) | Adopted 561 for, 109 against, 11 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Financial activities of the European Investment Bank – annual report 2024 | Adopted 417 for, 188 against, 75 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Against |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Security of energy supply in the EU | Adopted 459 for, 170 against, 30 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability | Passed 457 for, 17 against, 86 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Case of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran | Adopted 486 for, 8 against, 29 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Media freedom in Georgia, particularly the case of Mzia Amaglobeli | Adopted 324 for, 25 against, 87 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in Mali | Adopted 511 for, 14 against, 25 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Electricity grids: the backbone of the EU energy system | Adopted 418 for, 112 against, 45 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Jun 2025 | Clean Industrial Deal | Adopted 381 for, 173 against, 13 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Macro-financial assistance to Egypt | Passed 386 for, 132 against, 49 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | EU/Euratom Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty: adoption by Euratom | Passed 557 for, 47 against, 46 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Adoption by the Union of the Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty | Passed 554 for, 53 against, 37 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility | Adopted 421 for, 180 against, 55 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: Against |
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
- Transport & tourism 5
- Migration & asylum 4
- 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.
70 contributions recorded, 14 written statements; 10 on behalf of their group; 73 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, 58
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 f37e5638cded (25 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
- 25 September 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=9&speeches=all&vscope=final (retrieved 25 September 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 f37e5638cded (25 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-220871,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Rihards KOLS}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/220871?page=9&speeches=all&vscope=final}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/220871?page=9&speeches=all&vscope=final},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
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 f37e5638cded (25 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}
}