Member
Ilia LAZAROV
EPP · 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 ⓘ
73.8 %
4 373 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (−16.1 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
88.2 %
3 857 of 4 373 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (−5.4 pts)
269 opposite (for ↔ against), 130 abstained against the line, 9 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Ilia LAZAROV | 73.8 % |
| EPP median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 17.0 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 196 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Ilia LAZAROV | 88.2 % |
| EPP median | 93.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.5 % |
| Members | 196 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. 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.
| Date | Decision and vote | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Separate vote on paragraph 34 | 603 for, 3 against, 39 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Separate vote on paragraph 32 | 586 for, 39 against, 24 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Paragraph 25 — part 2 | 491 for, 122 against, 41 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Separate vote on paragraph 16 | 457 for, 174 against, 18 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 10 to paragraph 16 | 124 for, 499 against, 25 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 2 to paragraph 16 | 68 for, 506 against, 73 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Paragraph 15 — part 2 | 469 for, 97 against, 83 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 10 | 105 for, 531 against, 17 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 8 to paragraph 9 | 120 for, 511 against, 21 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Separate vote on paragraph 8 | 493 for, 130 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 7 to paragraph 7 | 107 for, 508 against, 32 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 6 | 149 for, 283 against, 219 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Abstained |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 4 | 265 for, 303 against, 84 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 2 | 105 for, 520 against, 17 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 1 | 99 for, 517 against, 24 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova Amendment 4 to paragraph 1 | 110 for, 525 against, 19 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 470 for, 102 against, 77 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Amendment 4 to recital B | 102 for, 524 against, 24 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Amendment 3 to recital A | 108 for, 514 against, 25 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 60 | 276 for, 307 against, 64 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 60 | 278 for, 349 against, 23 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 50 | 106 for, 518 against, 21 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Amendment 7 to paragraph 44 | 118 for, 516 against, 18 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 405 for, 210 against, 36 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 5, adding text after recital A | 165 for, 464 against, 18 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 2 | 96 for, 528 against, 20 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 1 | 92 for, 530 against, 28 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 4, adding text after recital A | 217 for, 428 against, 4 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 99 — part 2 | 297 for, 334 against, 22 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 89 | 224 for, 412 against, 11 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 88 — part 2 | 447 for, 199 against, 9 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 85 — part 3 | 424 for, 191 against, 30 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 85 — part 2 | 453 for, 178 against, 22 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 16 to paragraph 79 | 191 for, 453 against, 8 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 74 | 183 for, 451 against, 16 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 70 | 185 for, 447 against, 18 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 61 | 218 for, 412 against, 12 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 1 to paragraph 57 | 421 for, 185 against, 36 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 53 — part 2 | 429 for, 218 against, 5 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 50 | 201 for, 420 against, 12 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 47 | 205 for, 433 against, 8 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 47 | 194 for, 437 against, 16 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 47 | 200 for, 431 against, 14 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 47 — part 4 | 430 for, 201 against, 17 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 47 — part 3 | 444 for, 195 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 47 — part 2 | 435 for, 207 against, 14 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 36 — part 2 | 431 for, 213 against, 14 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Paragraph 30 — part 2 | 302 for, 336 against, 14 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 11 | 192 for, 450 against, 12 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report Amendment 3 to paragraph 5 | 353 for, 169 against, 131 abstained | Position: For | 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 Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary CommitteeD-CL Joint parliamentary committee | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with MercosurDMER Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Resilience, Disaster Management and Civil ProtectionIG10-19 Intergroup / working group | Member | 17 Mar 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA)IG10-20 Intergroup / working group | Vice-chair | 7 May 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Sky and SpaceIG10-21 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Wine, Quality Foodstuffs and SpiritsIG10-28 Intergroup / working group | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/823 of 28 February 2024 on exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association Process | Shadow rapporteur | INTA | 10 Jul 2025 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 4
- Economy & single market 3
- Energy 3
- EU institutions & Parliament 2
- Justice, rule of law & rights 2
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 1
- Climate & environment 1
- Defence & security 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.
1 contribution recorded; 1 minute of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on North Macedonia (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 7
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
| Date | Title | Kind | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Sept 2026 | Polisario Front E-10-2026-003521 | Written questionwith 9 co-authors | Not yet answered |
| 11 Jun 2026 | Small modular reactors E-10-2026-002408 | Written questionwith 25 co-authors | 20 Aug 2026 |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Systemic shortcomings in food safety controls and imports in the EU E-10-2026-001772 | Written questionwith 18 co-authors | 3 Jul 2026 |
| 24 Apr 2026 | Concerns regarding the termination of the Bulgarian EPPO selection procedure E-10-2026-001688 | Written questionwith 13 co-authors | 15 Jun 2026 |
| 24 Apr 2026 | Concerns regarding the termination of the Bulgarian EPPO selection procedure E-10-2026-001689 | Written questionwith 13 co-authors | 30 Jul 2026 |
| 22 Jul 2025 | Reassessing the timetable and safeguards for ETS2: preventing price shocks and ensuring social readiness E-10-2025-003032 | Written questionwith 48 co-authors | 12 Nov 2025 |
| 16 Dec 2024 | Adoption of an EU strategy for nuclear fusion E-10-2024-002958 | Written questionwith 15 co-authors | 17 Mar 2025 |
Amendments tabled in committee, 21
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 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 7669c786bb14 (1 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
- 1 October 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Ilia LAZAROV”. Member record. memberId 257261. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257261?page=84&scope=all&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257261. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257261?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 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-257261,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Ilia LAZAROV}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257261?page=84&scope=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257261?page=84&scope=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257261. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257261. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 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}
}