Member
Petar VOLGIN
ESN · 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 ⓘ
91.6 %
568 of 620 final votes while in office
ESN median: 90.8 % (+0.8 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
88.7 %
503 of 567 votes where their group had a line
ESN median: 93.9 % (−5.2 pts)
8 opposite (for ↔ against), 21 abstained against the line, 22 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Petar VOLGIN | 91.6 % |
| ESN median | 90.8 % |
| Lowest in the group | 65.8 % |
| Highest in the group | 97.7 % |
| Members | 27 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Petar VOLGIN | 88.7 % |
| ESN median | 93.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 64.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.3 % |
| Members | 27 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of ESN; 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 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 | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldEUDS Special committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyD-UK Joint parliamentary committee | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with IsraelD-IL Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the foreign policy response to external interference in the EU's neighbourhood | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Countering transnational repression – towards an EU strategy to protect Europe’s sovereignty and democratic values | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Report on the 2023-2024 Commission Reports on Ukraine (Shadow Rapporteur: Petar Volgin) | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 9 Dec 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 31
- Justice, rule of law & rights 20
- Defence & security 12
- EU budget & funds 10
- Economy & single market 10
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 10
- EU institutions & Parliament 8
- Digital, AI & data 5
- Migration & asylum 5
- Energy 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 1
- Climate & environment 1
- Health 1
- Trade & customs 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.
58 contributions recorded; 15 on behalf of their group; 75 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 49
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 39
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 Europe of Sovereign Nations ESN · Far-right · ultranationalism
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 579b2832c723 (26 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
- 26 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Petar VOLGIN”. Member record. memberId 257260. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257260?page=111&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257260. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257260?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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-257260,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Petar VOLGIN}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257260?page=111&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257260?page=111&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257260. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257260. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}