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Pál SZEKERES

Patriots · Hungary · left on 13 September 2026

Group
Patriots PfE
Country
Hungary
Roll-call participation
77.1 %ⓘ of 2 891 roll calls in office · chamber median 91.2 % · 2025, roll calls
With majority line
80.4 %ⓘ of 2 223 votes where the group had a line · Patriots median 83.1 %
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
193 of 1 760 votesⓘ
Member id
256855
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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 ⓘ

77.1 %

2 229 of 2 891 roll calls while in office

Patriots median: 93.3 % (−16.2 pts)

Chamber median: 91.2 %

With majority line ⓘ

80.4 %

1 788 of 2 223 votes where their group had a line

Patriots median: 83.1 % (−2.6 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

11.0 %

193 of 1 760 votes where their group had a clear line

55 opposite (for ↔ against), 121 abstained against the line, 17 voted for or against when the line was to abstain

Abstention ⓘ

13.3 %

297 of 2 229 votes cast

Participation 77.1 % — Patriots median 93.3 %, 88 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 88 members of the Patriots with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Pál SZEKERES77.1 %
Patriots median93.3 %
Lowest in the group51.8 %
Highest in the group99.9 %
Members88
With majority line 80.4 % — Patriots median 83.1 %, 88 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 88 members of the Patriots with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Pál SZEKERES80.4 %
Patriots median83.1 %
Lowest in the group72.7 %
Highest in the group93.8 %
Members88
  • 2025, 2 891 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.

Votes, 5 568

Export

Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.

Result: for–against–abstained. Majority line: how most of the member’s group voted that day (“Tie” when no position won). ≠ group marks a vote otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting) of their group.
DateDecision and voteResultPositionMajority line
14 Nov 2024UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 41 110 for, 460 against, 74 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) Amendment 12 to paragraph 41 105 for, 459 against, 79 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 1 141 for, 459 against, 43 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29) Amendment 10 to paragraph 1 143 for, 458 against, 43 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024Amendment of the EIB’s Statute Final vote on the draft Council decisionPassed 510 for, 105 against, 27 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
14 Nov 2024Faster and Safer Relief of Excess Withholding Taxes Final votePassed 555 for, 48 against, 42 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
14 Nov 2024Electronic value added tax exemption certificate Final votePassed 621 for, 10 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Final votePassed 371 for, 240 against, 30 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 12 to Article 1, paragraph 1, after point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Article 30, paragraph 4 309 for, 311 against, 21 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 11 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 319 for, 300 against, 20 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 10 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 314 for, 303 against, 23 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 9 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 311 for, 308 against, 23 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 7 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 303 for, 292 against, 20 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 6 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 308 for, 303 against, 19 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 5 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 308 for, 303 against, 20 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 4 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 324 for, 296 against, 15 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
14 Nov 2024Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application Amendment 3 to Article 1, paragraph 1, before point 1 Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 306 for, 303 against, 18 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
13 Nov 2024Thursday’s agenda – Request by The Left Group Thursday’s agenda — Request by The Left Group 201 for, 353 against, 7 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
13 Nov 2024Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the Renew and PPE groups Wednesday’s agenda — Request by the Renew and PPE groups 309 for, 191 against, 34 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
24 Oct 2024People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 432 for, 60 against, 71 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
24 Oct 2024People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 17 162 for, 378 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan Paragraph 8 — part 2 488 for, 44 against, 37 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan Paragraph 6 — part 1 531 for, 4 against, 37 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024People’s Republic of China’s misinterpretation of the UN resolution 2758 and its continuous military provocations around Taiwan Separate vote on paragraph 4 511 for, 9 against, 50 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 453 for, 31 against, 89 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
24 Oct 2024Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia Separate vote on paragraph 18 544 for, 6 against, 24 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
24 Oct 2024Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia Separate vote on paragraph 17 577 for, 1 against, 5 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia Paragraph 10 — part 2 423 for, 113 against, 39 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia Amendment 2 to paragraph 10 152 for, 394 against, 31 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia Amendment 1 to paragraph 10 258 for, 274 against, 49 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia Paragraph 3 — part 1 573 for, 0 against, 7 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
24 Oct 2024Situation in Azerbaijan, violation of human rights and international law and relations with Armenia Separate vote on paragraph 1 527 for, 5 against, 38 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
23 Oct 2024Urgent need to revise the Medical Devices Regulation Paragraph 1 — part 2 420 for, 208 against, 12 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
23 Oct 2024Urgent need to revise the Medical Devices Regulation Paragraph 1 — part 1 545 for, 80 against, 15 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Final votePassed 444 for, 179 against, 20 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 20 to Annex, guideline 6, paragraph 3 — part 3 434 for, 172 against, 37 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 20 to Annex, guideline 6, paragraph 3 — part 2 424 for, 192 against, 11 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 20 to Annex, guideline 6, paragraph 3 — part 1 528 for, 54 against, 62 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Abstained
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 15 263 for, 356 against, 9 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 13 — part 2 443 for, 185 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 11 — part 2 456 for, 134 against, 45 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 10 — part 2 362 for, 243 against, 36 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 10 — part 1 418 for, 180 against, 31 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 5 — part 2 452 for, 144 against, 44 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Amendment 1 — part 2 430 for, 188 against, 22 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections Final vote — text as a wholeResolution rejected 233 for, 360 against, 59 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
23 Oct 2024General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections Amendment 77, adding text after paragraph 98 134 for, 484 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
23 Oct 2024General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 92 — part 2 139 for, 481 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
23 Oct 2024General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 92 — part 1 349 for, 68 against, 230 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: For
23 Oct 2024General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections Amendment 16 to paragraph 92 255 for, 314 against, 80 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: For

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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 on 10 of 51 sittings with roll calls.

"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.

At least 200 shared roll calls over at least six months in office together. Within = both sat in the same group on the date of the vote; a member who changed group can appear on both lists. Baseline = the median agreement of all pairs of members of the groups the two sat in on the date of each shared vote (within: the group they shared; outside: the two groups), weighted by the votes they shared in each combination.

Within Patriots

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in the same group (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of that group.
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
András GYÜRK PatriotsHungary99 % of 2 884 shared74 %
Tamás DEUTSCH PatriotsHungary99 % of 2 322 shared74 %
Viktória FERENC PatriotsHungary99 % of 3 772 shared74 %
Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS PatriotsHungary99 % of 2 911 shared74 %
Csaba DÖMÖTÖR PatriotsHungary99 % of 4 044 shared74 %
András LÁSZLÓ PatriotsHungary99 % of 3 743 shared74 %
Annamária VICSEK PatriotsHungary99 % of 3 907 shared74 %
Kinga GÁL PatriotsHungary99 % of 3 517 shared74 %
Enikő GYŐRI PatriotsHungary99 % of 3 552 shared74 %
György HÖLVÉNYI PatriotsHungary98 % of 2 557 shared74 %

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Outside the group

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in different groups (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of the groups the two sat in on those votes (groups at the date, weighted by the votes shared in each combination).
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Guillaume PELTIER ECRFrance74 % of 3 599 shared68 %
Laurence TROCHU ECRFrance73 % of 3 973 shared68 %
Marion MARÉCHAL ECRFrance73 % of 3 492 shared68 %
Nicolas BAY ECRFrance71 % of 3 617 shared68 %
Stephen Nikola BARTULICA ECRCroatia71 % of 3 612 shared68 %
Mariusz KAMIŃSKI ECRPoland71 % of 4 118 shared68 %
Małgorzata GOSIEWSKA ECRPoland71 % of 3 710 shared68 %
Maciej WĄSIK ECRPoland70 % of 4 003 shared68 %
Marco SQUARTA ECRItaly70 % of 3 151 shared68 %
Anna ZALEWSKA ECRPoland70 % of 4 094 shared68 %

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Work

Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.

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.

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Questions and motions, 49

Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.

Date: tabled. Title: the question or motion, with its id. Kind: written question or motion for a resolution, with the number of co-authors. Answer: the date of the answer to a question.
DateTitleKindAnswer
2 Sept 2026Adhering to the timeline for the European Disability Card E-10-2026-003450Written questionwith 10 co-authorsNot yet answered
28 Jul 2026Compatibility of the suspension of Hungarian public service media news services with EU law E-10-2026-003148Written questionwith 9 co-authors21 Sept 2026
21 Jul 2026Freedom of expression and the arrest of Hungarian influencer István Szakács E-10-2026-003068Written questionwith 4 co-authors24 Sept 2026
16 Jul 2026Constitutional coup by Péter Magyar’s government E-10-2026-003035Written questionwith 42 co-authors11 Sept 2026
29 Jun 2026Ukraine’s updated Action Plan and the protection of national minorities P-10-2026-002670Priority written questionwith 10 co-authors30 Jul 2026
26 Jun 2026Abolition of the Hungarian Constitutional Court’s power to issue preliminary opinions on EU-related matters E-10-2026-002667Written questionwith 10 co-authors18 Sept 2026
8 Jun 2026Jean Monnet Actions European funding of universities and promotion of the federalist project E-10-2026-002346Written questionwith 8 co-authors24 Jul 2026
16 Apr 2026Antifa=Terrorists: zero tolerance for political violence in Europe E-10-2026-001569Written questionwith 28 co-authors15 Jun 2026
15 Apr 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on EU-funded media attacking Christian symbols while applying double standards B-10-2026-0184Motion for a resolutionwith 27 co-authors—
25 Mar 2026Restoring genuine academic freedom in our universities E-10-2026-001262Written questionwith 27 co-authors22 May 2026

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Amendments tabled in committee, 67

Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.

Date: of the amendment document. Text amended: the dossier and the document’s id. Committee: where the amendments were tabled. Amendments: how many in the document are the member’s.
DateText amendedCommitteeAmendments
2 Sept 2026Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States EMPL-AM-792013 EMPL8
14 Jul 2026Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2025 PETI-AM-790995 PETI34
13 Jul 2026General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 - all sections EMPL-AM-789962 EMPL6
7 Jul 2026General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 - all sections IMCO-AM-790864 IMCO4
26 Jun 2026Amending Regulations (EC) No 561/2006, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2019/2144 and (EU) 2024/1257 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the simplification of technical requirements and testing procedures for motor vehicles and repealing Council Directive 70/157/EEC and Regulation No 540/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council CJ76-AM-789933 CJ761
26 Jun 2026Amending Regulations (EC) No 561/2006, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2019/2144 and (EU) 2024/1257 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the simplification of technical requirements and testing procedures for motor vehicles and repealing Council Directive 70/157/EEC and Regulation No 540/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council CJ76-AM-789089 CJ761
22 Jun 2026The 28th regime corporate legal framework – 'EU Inc.' EMPL-AM-790022 EMPL11
22 Jun 2026Boosting skills in the Union – opportunities for vocational education and training in times of transition EMPL-AM-790034 EMPL11
12 May 2026Establishing the European Social Fund as part of the National and Regional Partnership Plan set out in Regulation (EU) […] [NRPPlan] establishing conditions for the implementation of the Union support to quality employment, skills and social inclusion for the period from 2028 to 2034 EMPL-AM-788860 EMPL6
21 Apr 2026Establishment of European Business Wallets IMCO-AM-787760 IMCO10

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Connections

Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.

Political group

National delegation

  • Delegation Hungary National delegation

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
data version e994c83b5003 (27 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
27 September 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?page=106&period=2025&vscope=all (retrieved 27 September 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 e994c83b5003 (27 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-256855,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Pál SZEKERES}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256855?page=106&period=2025&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256855?page=106&period=2025&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-27},
  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 e994c83b5003 (27 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}
}