Member
Ivaylo VALCHEV
ECR · Bulgaria
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 ⓘ
97.5 %
5 777 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
ECR median: 91.6 % (+5.8 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
92.5 %
5 326 of 5 760 votes where their group had a line
ECR median: 91.1 % (+1.3 pts)
67 opposite (for ↔ against), 130 abstained against the line, 19 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Ivaylo VALCHEV | 97.5 % |
| ECR median | 91.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 47.1 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.7 % |
| Members | 79 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Ivaylo VALCHEV | 92.5 % |
| ECR median | 91.1 % |
| Lowest in the group | 66.8 % |
| Highest in the group | 93.7 % |
| Members | 79 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of ECR; 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 | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Culture and EducationCULT Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer ProtectionIMCO Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on PetitionsPETI Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary CommitteeD-MK Joint parliamentary committee | Vice-chair | 3 Oct 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary CommitteeD-RS Joint parliamentary committee | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Wine, Quality Foodstuffs and SpiritsIG10-28 Intergroup / working group | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary CommitteeD-MK Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | 2 Oct 2024 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | CULT | 16 Sept 2026 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | CULT | 15 Sept 2026 |
| European Capitals of Culture 2034–2047 | Shadow rapporteur | CULT | 15 Sept 2026 |
| 25th EU- North Macedonia JPC Meeting, 24-25 September 2026, Skopje | Official delegation | D-MK | 7 Sept 2026 |
| Enhanced EU decision-making through means provided for in the EU treaties | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | AFET | 6 May 2026 |
| 2025 Commission report on Kosovo | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 2 Feb 2026 |
| 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 2 Feb 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | CULT | 10 Dec 2025 |
| Establishing the 'AgoraEU' programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/692 and (EU) 2021/818 | Shadow rapporteur | CULT | 14 Oct 2025 |
| A new strategy for media literacy and digital learning | Shadow rapporteur | CULT | 14 Oct 2025 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 77
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 18
- Economy & single market 13
- Justice, rule of law & rights 11
- Defence & security 10
- EU budget & funds 7
- Climate & environment 7
- Digital, AI & data 6
- EU institutions & Parliament 6
- Energy 5
- Migration & asylum 4
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 3
- Trade & customs 1
- Transport & tourism 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.
42 contributions recorded, 16 written statements; 4 on behalf of their group; 34 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 83
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 66
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 Conservatives and Reformists ECR · Right-wing · national conservatism, EU-critical
National delegation
- Delegation Bulgaria 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). “Ivaylo VALCHEV”. Member record. memberId 257258. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257258?rows=all&seats=all&vscope=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257258. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257258?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-257258,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Ivaylo VALCHEV}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257258?rows=all&seats=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257258?rows=all&seats=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257258. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257258. 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}
}