Member
Liesbet SOMMEN
EPP · Belgium
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 ⓘ
95.8 %
5 679 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (+5.9 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
94.3 %
5 354 of 5 679 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (+0.7 pts)
171 opposite (for ↔ against), 55 abstained against the line, 9 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Liesbet SOMMEN | 95.8 % |
| EPP median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 17.0 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 196 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Liesbet SOMMEN | 94.3 % |
| EPP median | 93.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.5 % |
| Members | 196 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of EPP; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report | Adopted 405 for, 210 against, 36 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro | Adopted 470 for, 102 against, 77 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova | Adopted 456 for, 118 against, 51 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 as regards additional assistance and further flexibility to outermost regions affected by severe natural disasters and in the context of cyclone Chido devastating Mayotte | Passed 653 for, 7 against, 3 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) | Passed 599 for, 2 against, 62 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine amending the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by road of 29 June 2022 | Consent given 488 for, 137 against, 34 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Termination of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Cameroon on forest law enforcement governance and trade in timber and derived products to the Union | Consent given 583 for, 78 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Termination of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Cameroon on forest law enforcement governance and trade in timber and derived products to the Union. | Adopted 557 for, 75 against, 37 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the declaration of input (Article 8 of Annex I to the Rules of Procedure) | Adopted 653 for, 0 against, 15 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy | Adopted 622 for, 24 against, 21 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville | Rejected 282 for, 340 against, 26 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Against |
| 22 May 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism | Passed 564 for, 20 against, 12 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Modification of customs duties applicable to imports of certain goods originating in or exported from the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus | Passed 411 for, 100 against, 78 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Granting equivalence to Moldova and Ukraine for field inspections and seed production | Passed 374 for, 176 against, 36 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Amendments to the Capital Requirements Regulation as regards securities financing transactions under the net stable funding ratio | Passed 436 for, 149 against, 11 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Euratom Research and Training Programme for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon Europe | Passed 489 for, 55 against, 38 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023 | Adopted 260 for, 194 against, 110 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles for 2025 to 2027 | Passed 458 for, 101 against, 14 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | The protection status of the wolf (Canis lupus) | Passed 371 for, 162 against, 37 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season | Passed 425 for, 106 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Screening of foreign investments in the Union | Passed 378 for, 173 against, 24 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Suspending certain parts of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the European Union | Passed 354 for, 147 against, 53 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Genetically modified soybean MON 87705 × MON 87708 × MON 89788 | Objection passed 373 for, 150 against, 10 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 8 May 2025 | Violations of religious freedom in Tibet | Adopted 478 for, 30 against, 41 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported by Russia | Adopted 516 for, 3 against, 34 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Ninth report on economic and social cohesion | Adopted 392 for, 125 against, 55 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Competition policy – annual report 2024 | Adopted 358 for, 124 against, 79 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Banking Union – annual report 2024 | Adopted 345 for, 135 against, 62 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market | Adopted 306 for, 80 against, 57 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Amending of the ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review | Urgent procedure agreed 316 for, 291 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Amending of Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund + (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges | Urgent procedure agreed 370 for, 268 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds | Discharge decision adopted 412 for, 245 against, 5 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Parliament | Discharge decision adopted 513 for, 119 against, 20 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and Council | Discharge decision adopted 588 for, 62 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union | Discharge decision adopted 541 for, 97 against, 26 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Auditors | Discharge decision adopted 630 for, 16 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Economic and Social Committee | Discharge decision adopted 538 for, 96 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Committee of the Regions | Discharge decision adopted 549 for, 97 against, 18 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Ombudsman | Discharge decision adopted 568 for, 54 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Data Protection Supervisor | Discharge decision adopted 564 for, 61 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European External Action Service | Discharge decision adopted 519 for, 126 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: European Public Prosecutor’s Office | Discharge decision adopted 481 for, 157 against, 24 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: Agencies | Discharge decision adopted 473 for, 120 against, 64 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: Joint Undertakings | Discharge decision adopted 513 for, 101 against, 39 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world | Adopted 317 for, 206 against, 123 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | The European Water Resilience Strategy | Adopted 470 for, 81 against, 92 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye | Adopted 367 for, 74 against, 188 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Serbia | Adopted 419 for, 113 against, 88 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Kosovo | Adopted 353 for, 145 against, 78 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 6 May 2025 | Amendments to the International Health Regulations contained in the Annex to Resolution WHA77.17 and adopted on 1 June 2024 | Consent given 514 for, 126 against, 6 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
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 Employment and Social AffairsEMPL Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 20 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender EqualityFEMM Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Public HealthSANT Committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with BelarusD-BY Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for Northern cooperation and for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary CommitteeDEEA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary AssemblyDEPA Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Cancer and Rare DiseasesIG10-05 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Children’s RightsIG10-06 Intergroup / working group | Member | 19 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on DemographyIG10-09 Intergroup / working group | Member | 3 Feb 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 27
- Economy & single market 19
- Health 17
- Digital, AI & data 15
- EU budget & funds 12
- Foreign affairs 7
- Climate & environment 5
- Transport & tourism 4
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 3
- Defence & security 1
- Justice, rule of law & rights 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.
17 contributions recorded, 3 written statements; 6 on behalf of their group; 25 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 46
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 53
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 People’s Party EPP · Centre-right · Christian democracy, conservatism
National delegation
- Delegation Belgium 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). “Liesbet SOMMEN”. Member record. memberId 256889. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256889?nb=all&page=10&vscope=final (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256889. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256889?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-256889,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Liesbet SOMMEN}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256889?nb=all&page=10&vscope=final}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256889?nb=all&page=10&vscope=final},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256889. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256889. 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}
}