Member
Rudi KENNES
The Left · Belgium
- Group
- The Left
- Country
- Belgium
- Roll-call participation
- 97.6 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
- With majority line
- 89.7 %ⓘ of 600 votes where the group had a line · The Left median 86.6 %
More facts (5)
- National party
- Independent
- In office
- Since 16 Jul 2024
- Against clear line
- 21 of 501 votesⓘ
- Committees
- EMPL (substitute), INTA, ITRE, TRAN (substitute)
- Member id
- 256890
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 ⓘ
97.6 %
605 of 620 final votes while in office
The Left median: 86.9 % (+10.6 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
89.7 %
538 of 600 votes where their group had a line
The Left median: 86.6 % (+3.0 pts)
3 opposite (for ↔ against), 17 abstained against the line, 1 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Rudi KENNES | 97.6 % |
| The Left median | 86.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 37.7 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.4 % |
| Members | 47 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Rudi KENNES | 89.7 % |
| The Left median | 86.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 64.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 91.8 % |
| Members | 47 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of The Left; 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 | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Transport and TourismTRAN Committee | Substitute | 20 May 2026 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of BrazilD-BR Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the countries of South AsiaDSAS Delegation | Member | 15 Dec 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the Pacific-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDPAC Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 10 Dec 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Anti-Racism and DiversityIG10-02 Intergroup / working group | Member | 15 Oct 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the Social Economy and Services of General InterestIG10-23 Intergroup / working group | Member | 7 Mar 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 90
- EU budget & funds 33
- Justice, rule of law & rights 33
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 31
- Economy & single market 27
- Trade & customs 27
- Defence & security 22
- Migration & asylum 15
- Digital, AI & data 13
- Health 12
- Climate & environment 11
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 4
- EU institutions & Parliament 3
- Transport & tourism 3
- Energy 2
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.
49 contributions recorded; 11 on behalf of their group; 64 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 131
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 36
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 The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) The Left · Left · democratic socialism, communism
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 579b2832c723 (26 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
- 26 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Rudi KENNES”. Member record. memberId 256890. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256890?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256890. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256890?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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-256890,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Rudi KENNES}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256890?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256890?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256890. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256890. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}