Member
João OLIVEIRA
The Left · 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 ⓘ
81.3 %
504 of 620 final votes while in office
The Left median: 86.9 % (−5.6 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
64.5 %
321 of 498 votes where their group had a line
The Left median: 86.6 % (−22.2 pts)
37 opposite (for ↔ against), 63 abstained against the line, 24 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| João OLIVEIRA | 81.3 % |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| João OLIVEIRA | 64.5 % |
| 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 BudgetsBUDG Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Employment and Social AffairsEMPL Committee | Member | 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 | Substitute | 23 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 | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Fighting against PovertyIG10-12 Intergroup / working group | Member | 24 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Trade UnionsIG10-24 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 65
- Economy & single market 49
- EU budget & funds 35
- Defence & security 20
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 16
- Trade & customs 16
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 9
- Digital, AI & data 8
- Migration & asylum 8
- Climate & environment 7
- Justice, rule of law & rights 7
- Transport & tourism 5
- Health 4
- EU institutions & Parliament 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.
342 contributions recorded, 2 written statements; 19 on behalf of their group; 375 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 88
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 61
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 groups this term
- Group The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) The Left · Left · democratic socialism, communism
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 OLIVEIRA”. Member record. memberId 257083. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257083?page=2&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257083. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257083?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-257083,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{João OLIVEIRA}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257083?page=2&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257083?page=2&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257083. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257083. 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}
}