Member
João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO
Renew · 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 ⓘ
82.2 %
4 872 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
Renew median: 90.4 % (−8.3 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
94.2 %
4 587 of 4 867 votes where their group had a line
Renew median: 95.5 % (−1.3 pts)
107 opposite (for ↔ against), 109 abstained against the line, 1 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO | 82.2 % |
| Renew median | 90.4 % |
| Lowest in the group | 65.3 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.7 % |
| Members | 76 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO | 94.2 % |
| Renew median | 95.5 % |
| Lowest in the group | 77.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 98.3 % |
| Members | 76 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of Renew; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jan 2026 | Request for opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement (EMPA) and Interim Trade Agreement (ITA) | Adopted 334 for, 324 against, 11 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025 | Adopted 392 for, 179 against, 83 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025 | Adopted 395 for, 197 against, 70 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 | Adopted 421 for, 120 against, 108 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Addressing impunity through EU sanctions, including the EU Global Human Rights sanctions regime (so-called ‘EU Magnitsky Act’) | Adopted 440 for, 127 against, 59 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interest | Passed 503 for, 57 against, 108 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 20 Jan 2026 | The 28th Regime: a new legal framework for innovative companies | Adopted 492 for, 144 against, 28 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Just transition directive in the world of work: ensuring the creation of jobs and revitalising local economies | Adopted 420 for, 207 against, 20 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Safeguarding and promoting financial stability amid economic uncertainties | Adopted 491 for, 83 against, 84 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Humanitarian aid in a time of polycrisis – reaffirming our principles for a more effective and ambitious response to humanitarian crises | Adopted 444 for, 153 against, 55 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Reform of the European Electoral Act – hurdles to ratification and implementation in the Member States | Adopted 417 for, 234 against, 9 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 18 Dec 2025 | Arbitrary arrest and sentencing of academics Bahruz Samadov and Igbal Abilov in Azerbaijan | Adopted 477 for, 7 against, 69 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 18 Dec 2025 | Mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria, including from St Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri | Adopted 519 for, 2 against, 50 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 18 Dec 2025 | Grave political situation in Guinea-Bissau after the coup of 26 November | Adopted 535 for, 0 against, 42 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 18 Dec 2025 | Implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime | Adopted 386 for, 184 against, 15 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 18 Dec 2025 | Decarbonisation and modernisation of EU fisheries, and the development and deployment of fishing gear | Adopted 450 for, 93 against, 37 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 18 Dec 2025 | Continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against Lithuania | Adopted 438 for, 37 against, 48 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Application of the ‘safe third country’ concept | Negotiating mandate approved 384 for, 237 against, 31 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Establishment of a list of safe countries of origin at Union level | Negotiating mandate approved 396 for, 202 against, 56 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Abstained |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Phasing out Russian natural gas imports, improving monitoring of potential energy dependencies | Passed 500 for, 120 against, 32 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and traders | Passed 405 for, 242 against, 8 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 17 Dec 2025 | European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) | Passed 604 for, 37 against, 18 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 17 Dec 2025 | EU/Jordan Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation: terms and conditions for the participation of Jordan in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) | Consent given 627 for, 13 against, 5 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Simplification of the content and presentation of information to be disclosed concerning environmentally sustainable activities and simplification of certain technical screening criteria for determining whether economic activities cause no significant harm to environmental objectives | Objection failed 230 for, 402 against, 28 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Military Mobility | Adopted 493 for, 127 against, 38 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 17 Dec 2025 | European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needs | Adopted 425 for, 120 against, 96 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management in the workplace – shaping the future of work | Adopted 480 for, 83 against, 94 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 17 Dec 2025 | European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’ | Adopted 358 for, 202 against, 79 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products | Passed 431 for, 161 against, 70 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Amending the Directive on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes | Amendment 1 rejected 122 for, 470 against, 69 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan | Passed 519 for, 119 against, 25 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties | Passed 629 for, 17 against, 16 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Providing macro-financial assistance to Jordan | Passed 585 for, 34 against, 45 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Brexit Adjustment Reserve | Passed 619 for, 6 against, 37 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements | Passed 428 for, 218 against, 17 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – Sweden | Passed 578 for, 54 against, 30 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Genetically modified maize NK603 | Objection passed 479 for, 173 against, 8 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Genetically modified sugar beet KWS20-1 | Objection passed 455 for, 169 against, 8 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Relations between the EU and Saudi Arabia | Adopted 417 for, 131 against, 108 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Amending Regulations on the Internal Market Information System (IMI) and on the single digital gateway as regards certain harmonisation requirements on transparency | Passed 400 for, 77 against, 132 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Harmonised requirements in the internal market on transparency of third countries interest representation | Passed 392 for, 88 against, 133 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Post-election killings and the deteriorating human rights situation in Tanzania, including the case of imprisoned opposition leader Tundu Lissu | Adopted 539 for, 0 against, 27 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Escalating repression of the Baha’is in Iran | Adopted 549 for, 7 against, 31 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Rule of law and human rights situation in Tunisia, particularly the case of Sonia Dahmani | Adopted 464 for, 58 against, 75 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement | Adopted 490 for, 41 against, 74 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024 | Adopted 490 for, 9 against, 109 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Application of the Treaty provisions related to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality and the role of national parliaments in the EU legislative process | Adopted 337 for, 245 against, 12 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan | Adopted 503 for, 32 against, 52 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Political situation in Myanmar including the humanitarian crisis of the Rohingya | Adopted 519 for, 3 against, 57 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 27 Nov 2025 | EU position on the proposed plan and EU engagement towards a just and lasting peace for Ukraine | Adopted 401 for, 70 against, 90 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | 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 International TradeINTA Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)IG10-22 Intergroup / working group | Member | 12 Mar 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 11
- Economy & single market 6
- Trade & customs 5
- Defence & security 4
- EU budget & funds 3
- Energy 2
- Climate & environment 1
- Digital, AI & data 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.
30 contributions recorded; 5 on behalf of their group; 42 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 7
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 34
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 Renew Europe Renew · Centre · liberalism, pro-Europeanism
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). “João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO”. Member record. memberId 257057. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257057?amendments=all&page=6 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257057. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257057?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-257057,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257057?amendments=all&page=6}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257057?amendments=all&page=6},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257057. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257057. 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}
}