Member · Former member
Pál SZEKERES
Patriots · Hungary · left on 13 September 2026
- Group
- Patriots PfE
- Country
- Hungary
- Roll-call participation
- 74.9 %ⓘ of 5 568 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.2 % · whole term, roll calls
- With majority line
- 78.9 %ⓘ of 4 158 votes where the group had a line · Patriots median 82.7 %
More facts (4)
- National party
- Fidesz-KDNP Fidesz-Magyar Polgári Szövetség-Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt
- In office
- 16 Jul 2024 – 13 Sept 2026 (left on 13 September 2026)
- Against clear line
- 441 of 3 301 votesⓘ
- Member id
- 256855
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 ⓘ
74.9 %
4 171 of 5 568 roll calls while in office
Patriots median: 91.1 % (−16.2 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
78.9 %
3 280 of 4 158 votes where their group had a line
Patriots median: 82.7 % (−3.8 pts)
136 opposite (for ↔ against), 278 abstained against the line, 27 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Pál SZEKERES | 74.9 % |
| Patriots median | 91.1 % |
| Lowest in the group | 44.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.9 % |
| Members | 89 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Pál SZEKERES | 78.9 % |
| Patriots median | 82.7 % |
| Lowest in the group | 72.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 92.9 % |
| Members | 89 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of Patriots; 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.
| Date | Decision and vote | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 14 to paragraph 12 | 194 for, 439 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 13 to paragraph 10 | 171 for, 445 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 2 to paragraph 9 | 225 for, 415 against, 10 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 12 to paragraph 7 | 151 for, 443 against, 49 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Separate vote on paragraph 4 | 422 for, 199 against, 24 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 11 to paragraph 4 | 191 for, 443 against, 9 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 2 | 182 for, 446 against, 15 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Separate vote on paragraph 2 | 408 for, 213 against, 23 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 9 to paragraph 2 | 184 for, 450 against, 10 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 1 | 186 for, 447 against, 11 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded Amendment 1 | 184 for, 441 against, 15 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) Final vote on the provisional agreement | Passed 457 for, 148 against, 33 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 25 Nov 2025 | European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) Proposal to vote on amendments | 87 for, 542 against, 15 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings; enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes Final vote on the provisional agreement | Passed 556 for, 74 against, 7 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) Proposal to reject the text | 116 for, 490 against, 43 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Decision to maintain the action before the Court of Justice for the annulment of the decision of the Commission on the withdrawal of the Standard essential patents proposal Decision to maintain the action | 334 for, 294 against, 11 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Wednesday’s agenda – Request by The Left Group – Gaza Wednesday’s agenda — Request by The Left Group — Gaza | 173 for, 244 against, 16 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the PPE, S&D, Renew and Verts/ALE groups – Ukraine (resolution) Wednesday’s agenda — Request by the PPE, S&D, Renew and Verts/ALE groups — Ukraine (resolution) | 301 for, 103 against, 33 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE and ECR groups – Ukraine (debate) Wednesday’s agenda — Request by the PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE and ECR groups — Ukraine (debate) | 424 for, 0 against, 14 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 310 for, 222 against, 68 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on recital AC | 276 for, 317 against, 16 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on recital Z | 293 for, 269 against, 42 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Recital M — part 3 | 331 for, 220 against, 30 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Recital M — part 2 | 379 for, 134 against, 80 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Abstained |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Recital M — part 1 | 476 for, 41 against, 92 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on recital I | 355 for, 191 against, 44 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on recital H | 298 for, 239 against, 61 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Abstained |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Recital G — part 2 | 254 for, 335 against, 18 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Recital G — part 1 | 493 for, 8 against, 101 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Recital D — part 3 | 289 for, 289 against, 7 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Recital D — part 2 | 347 for, 170 against, 61 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Recital D — part 1 | 404 for, 176 against, 22 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 87 — part 2 | 362 for, 163 against, 62 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Abstained |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 87 — part 1 | 411 for, 187 against, 15 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 86 | 273 for, 324 against, 18 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 84 | 269 for, 313 against, 26 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 83 | 272 for, 320 against, 19 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 79 — part 3 | 359 for, 167 against, 68 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 79 — part 2 | 299 for, 246 against, 45 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 79 — part 1 | 406 for, 176 against, 29 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 78 — part 2 | 289 for, 304 against, 11 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 78 — part 1 | 396 for, 182 against, 32 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 77 | 346 for, 224 against, 35 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 74 — part 2 | 258 for, 325 against, 21 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 74 — part 1 | 397 for, 170 against, 44 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Separate vote on paragraph 73 | 279 for, 289 against, 42 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 72 — part 3 | 254 for, 324 against, 30 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 72 — part 2 | 365 for, 149 against, 73 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Abstained |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 72 — part 1 | 396 for, 183 against, 28 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 Paragraph 71 — part 3 | 368 for, 147 against, 93 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Abstained |
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.
Dossiers
No rapporteur, shadow or negotiator role recorded this term.
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 35
- Justice, rule of law & rights 19
- EU budget & funds 15
- Economy & single market 15
- EU institutions & Parliament 11
- Foreign affairs 10
- Digital, AI & data 6
- Transport & tourism 6
- Defence & security 4
- Health 3
- Migration & asylum 3
- Trade & customs 3
- Climate & environment 2
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 1
- Energy 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.
44 contributions recorded, 17 written statements; 9 on behalf of their group; 38 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 49
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 67
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 Patriots for Europe Patriots · Far-right · national conservatism, right-wing populism
National delegation
- Delegation Hungary 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). “Pál SZEKERES”. Member record. memberId 256855. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256855?docs=all&page=53&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256855. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256855?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-256855,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Pál SZEKERES}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256855?docs=all&page=53&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256855?docs=all&page=53&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256855. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256855. 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}
}