Member
Vilis KRIŠTOPANS
Patriots · Latvia
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 ⓘ
93.4 %
579 of 620 final votes while in office
Patriots median: 90.8 % (+2.6 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
80.1 %
463 of 578 votes where their group had a line
Patriots median: 80.0 % (+0.1 pts)
19 opposite (for ↔ against), 31 abstained against the line, 11 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Vilis KRIŠTOPANS | 93.4 % |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Vilis KRIŠTOPANS | 80.1 % |
| 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 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 Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Substitute | 27 Apr 2026 | now |
| Committee on Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Transport and TourismTRAN Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Arab PeninsulaDARP Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Christians in the Middle EastIG10-07 Intergroup / working group | Member | 20 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Wine, Quality Foodstuffs and SpiritsIG10-28 Intergroup / working group | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 26 Apr 2026 |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 11
- Foreign affairs 6
- EU institutions & Parliament 6
- Transport & tourism 5
- Climate & environment 4
- EU budget & funds 3
- Justice, rule of law & rights 3
- Trade & customs 3
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 2
- Energy 2
- Defence & security 1
- Digital, AI & data 1
- Migration & asylum 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.
4 contributions recorded; 6 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Sept 2025 | Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 11 Mar 2025 | White paper on the future of European defence (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 23 Oct 2024 | U-turn on EU bureaucracy: the need to axe unnecessary burdens and reporting to unleash competitiveness and innovation (topical debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 8 Oct 2024 | The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 19
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 39
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 Latvia 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 5a7357168c2a (28 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
- 28 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Vilis KRIŠTOPANS”. Member record. memberId 256909. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256909?page=97&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 28 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256909. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256909?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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-256909,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Vilis KRIŠTOPANS}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256909?page=97&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256909?page=97&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-28},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256909. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256909. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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}
}