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 roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
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?page=118&vscope=all (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?page=118&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256889?page=118&vscope=all},
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}
}