Member
Paulo CUNHA
EPP · 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 ⓘ
98.1 %
608 of 620 final votes while in office
EPP median: 90.6 % (+7.5 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
97.4 %
592 of 608 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 95.6 % (+1.8 pts)
5 opposite (for ↔ against), 4 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Paulo CUNHA | 98.1 % |
| EPP median | 90.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 18.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.8 % |
| Members | 192 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Paulo CUNHA | 97.4 % |
| EPP median | 95.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 67.8 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.0 % |
| Members | 192 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. 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 Budgetary ControlCONT Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on PetitionsPETI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America, including the EU-Central America Association Parliamentary CommitteeDCAM Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 24 Jul 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 24 Jul 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Attracting Investment to Ensure a Competitive and Sustainable European UnionIG10-03 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | 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 |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 13
- Digital, AI & data 9
- Foreign affairs 7
- EU budget & funds 4
- Energy 4
- Justice, rule of law & rights 4
- Trade & customs 4
- Climate & environment 3
- Defence & security 2
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- EU institutions & Parliament 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.
54 contributions recorded; 71 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, 54
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 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 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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
- 2 October 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Paulo CUNHA”. Member record. memberId 257078. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257078?page=70&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 2 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257078. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257078?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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-257078,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Paulo CUNHA}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257078?page=70&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257078?page=70&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-02},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257078. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257078. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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}
}