Member
Ana Catarina MENDES
S&D · Portugal
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 ⓘ
90.5 %
5 366 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
S&D median: 89.9 % (+0.7 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
98.5 %
5 285 of 5 365 votes where their group had a line
S&D median: 96.3 % (+2.3 pts)
37 opposite (for ↔ against), 11 abstained against the line, 9 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Ana Catarina MENDES | 90.5 % |
| S&D median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 30.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 138 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Ana Catarina MENDES | 98.5 % |
| S&D median | 96.3 % |
| Lowest in the group | 81.9 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.4 % |
| Members | 138 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of S&D; 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 Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE Committee | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldEUDS Special committee | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the MediterraneanDMED Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA)IG10-20 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Committee on Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 12 May 2026 |
| Subcommittee on Security and DefenceSEDE Subcommittee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 19 Jan 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dossier named | Official delegation | EUDS | 21 Sept 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | SEDE | 19 May 2026 |
| Establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 | Opinion rapporteur | SEDE | 3 Mar 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | EUDS | 23 Feb 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | SEDE | 20 Jan 2026 |
| Establishing the Union support for asylum, migration and integration for the period from 2028 to 2034 | Rapporteur | LIBE | 15 Jan 2026 |
| Conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 20 Oct 2025 |
| European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needs | Shadow rapporteur | SEDE | 8 Sept 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | AFET | 14 Jul 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | LIBE | 14 May 2025 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Justice, rule of law & rights 13
- Foreign affairs 9
- Digital, AI & data 8
- Migration & asylum 8
- Defence & security 7
- Economy & single market 7
- EU institutions & Parliament 4
- EU budget & funds 2
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- Energy 1
- Health 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.
70 contributions recorded; 25 on behalf of their group; 116 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 25
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 38
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 Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats S&D · Centre-left · social democracy
National delegation
- Delegation Portugal 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). “Ana Catarina MENDES”. Member record. memberId 257053. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257053?page=116&vscope=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257053. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257053?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-257053,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Ana Catarina MENDES}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257053?page=116&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257053?page=116&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257053. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257053. 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}
}