Member
Matthieu VALET
Patriots · France
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 ⓘ
70.2 %
435 of 620 final votes while in office
Patriots median: 90.8 % (−20.6 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
94.5 %
410 of 434 votes where their group had a line
Patriots median: 80.0 % (+14.5 pts)
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Matthieu VALET | 70.2 % |
| Patriots median | 90.8 % |
| Lowest in the group | 44.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.7 % |
| Members | 89 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Matthieu VALET | 94.5 % |
| Patriots median | 80.0 % |
| Lowest in the group | 59.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 94.8 % |
| Members | 89 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. 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 final roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
| Date | Decision | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Nov 2025 | Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders | Passed 402 for, 250 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under the InvestEU Regulation and simplifying reporting requirements | Passed 519 for, 65 against, 73 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Collection of statistical information by the European Central Bank | Passed 521 for, 110 against, 35 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Draft amending budget No 3/2025: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates | Passed 519 for, 99 against, 45 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1818 as regards the definition of prohibited weapons | Objection failed 88 for, 388 against, 184 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2429 as regards origin labelling for fruit and vegetables originating in the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara | Objection failed 359 for, 188 against, 76 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 26 Nov 2025 | 2026 budgetary procedure: joint text | Adopted 419 for, 185 against, 53 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 26 Nov 2025 | EU’s diplomatic strategy and geopolitical cooperation in the Arctic | Adopted 510 for, 75 against, 80 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Protection of minors online | Adopted 483 for, 92 against, 86 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups | Adopted 360 for, 298 against, 8 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’) | Passed 457 for, 148 against, 33 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | 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 | Passed 556 for, 74 against, 7 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Genetically modified maize DAS1131 | Objection passed 453 for, 171 against, 19 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Genetically modified cotton MON 88913 | Objection passed 452 for, 182 against, 13 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Genetically modified oilseed rape MON 88302 | Objection passed 456 for, 166 against, 21 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Genetically modified soybean MON 87708 | Objection passed 453 for, 179 against, 14 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Genetically modified maize MON 87427 | Objection passed 426 for, 157 against, 17 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | 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 | Adopted 415 for, 193 against, 28 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Ensuring faster registration and uptake of biological control agents | Adopted 590 for, 28 against, 32 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report) | Adopted 330 for, 273 against, 38 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Impact of artificial intelligence on the financial sector | Adopted 426 for, 182 against, 39 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 25 Nov 2025 | 2024 budget: assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget | Adopted 389 for, 213 against, 36 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 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 | Adopted 334 for, 294 against, 11 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Framework for achieving climate neutrality | Passed 379 for, 248 against, 10 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction | Passed 454 for, 172 against, 19 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements | Passed 382 for, 249 against, 13 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process | Passed 543 for, 72 against, 22 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) | Passed 370 for, 160 against, 107 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-Andorra agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol | Passed 605 for, 29 against, 0 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-San Marino agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol | Passed 606 for, 26 against, 1 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-Monaco agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol | Passed 610 for, 26 against, 1 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-Liechtenstein agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol | Passed 611 for, 26 against, 1 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | EU-Switzerland agreement on the automatic exchange of financial account information: Amending Protocol | Passed 605 for, 26 against, 2 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Digital Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore | Consent given 515 for, 93 against, 33 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Spain and France in relation to natural disasters in 2024 and 2025 | Passed 622 for, 10 against, 3 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Addressing transnational repression of human rights defenders | Adopted 512 for, 76 against, 52 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed Agreement on Digital Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore | Rejected 136 for, 432 against, 71 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Abstained |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Digital Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore (Resolution) | Adopted 572 for, 18 against, 41 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Gender Equality Strategy 2025 | Adopted 310 for, 222 against, 68 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Dates of application and transitional provisions for chemical products | Passed 441 for, 108 against, 11 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) | Passed 220 for, 341 against, 10 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 23 Oct 2025 | InvestEU Fund strategic investments in the field of defence | Objection failed 124 for, 401 against, 41 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from low-carbon fuels | Objection failed 175 for, 374 against, 25 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Renewing the EU-Africa partnership: building common priorities ahead of the Angola Summit | Adopted 367 for, 98 against, 113 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2025 | General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sections | Resolution adopted 384 for, 202 against, 58 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and Council | Discharge decision adopted 441 for, 125 against, 73 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Discharge 2023: Agencies | Discharge decision adopted 476 for, 99 against, 72 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations | Adopted 310 for, 277 against, 53 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Polarisation and increased repression in Serbia, one year after the Novi Sad tragedy | Adopted 457 for, 103 against, 72 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Situation in Belarus, five years after the fraudulent presidential elections | Adopted 458 for, 18 against, 84 abstained | Position: Abstained | 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.
Seats
| Body | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 20 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Member | 27 Apr 2026 | now |
| Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE Committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Subcommittee on Human RightsDROI Subcommittee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyD-UK Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 5 May 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with CanadaD-CA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with PalestineDPAL Delegation | Member | 16 Dec 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the MediterraneanDMED Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Christians in the Middle EastIG10-07 Intergroup / working group | Member | 20 Feb 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 81
- Justice, rule of law & rights 19
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 15
- Defence & security 13
- EU budget & funds 11
- Economy & single market 10
- Migration & asylum 9
- Climate & environment 7
- EU institutions & Parliament 7
- Trade & customs 5
- Health 4
- Transport & tourism 3
- Digital, AI & data 2
- Energy 2
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 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.
39 contributions recorded; 10 on behalf of their group; 51 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 56
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 106
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 France 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). “Matthieu VALET”. Member record. memberId 256875. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256875?nb=all&page=7&scope=final (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256875. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256875?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-256875,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Matthieu VALET}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256875?nb=all&page=7&scope=final}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256875?nb=all&page=7&scope=final},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256875. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256875. 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}
}