Member
Rada LAYKOVA
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 ⓘ
83.0 %
4 921 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
ESN median: 91.3 % (−8.3 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
95.1 %
4 672 of 4 914 votes where their group had a line
ESN median: 94.6 % (+0.5 pts)
52 opposite (for ↔ against), 70 abstained against the line, 27 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Rada LAYKOVA | 83.0 % |
| ESN median | 91.3 % |
| Lowest in the group | 68.6 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.0 % |
| Members | 27 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Rada LAYKOVA | 95.1 % |
| ESN median | 94.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.6 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 27 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. 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.
| Date | Decision and vote | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Apr 2026 | Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 1 | 505 for, 109 against, 29 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 447 for, 160 against, 43 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AP — part 2 | 336 for, 266 against, 32 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AP — part 1 | 497 for, 108 against, 46 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Abstained |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 4, adding text after Recital AL | 316 for, 298 against, 33 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AL — part 2 | 482 for, 83 against, 77 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AL — part 1 | 571 for, 33 against, 48 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AJ — part 2 | 394 for, 217 against, 29 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AJ — part 1 | 468 for, 129 against, 55 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AC — part 2 | 325 for, 269 against, 49 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AC — part 1 | 475 for, 109 against, 68 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Separate vote on citation 16 | 347 for, 257 against, 43 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 28 — part 2 | 459 for, 134 against, 46 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 28 — part 1 | 491 for, 111 against, 51 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 25 — part 2 | 361 for, 218 against, 60 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 25 — part 1 | 518 for, 36 against, 100 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: Abstained |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 21 — part 2 | 359 for, 218 against, 62 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 21 — part 1 | 444 for, 152 against, 54 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 6 to paragraph 21 | 312 for, 321 against, 16 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 20 — part 2 | 335 for, 281 against, 24 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 20 — part 1 | 431 for, 184 against, 39 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 19 — part 2 | 369 for, 240 against, 40 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 19 — part 1 | 504 for, 116 against, 33 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 5 to paragraph 16 | 378 for, 213 against, 59 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 12 — part 3 | 491 for, 83 against, 63 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 12 — part 2 | 496 for, 94 against, 55 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 12 — part 1 | 578 for, 37 against, 36 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 7 | 223 for, 343 against, 86 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 4 — part 2 | 394 for, 227 against, 27 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 4 — part 1 | 492 for, 126 against, 34 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 2 | 179 for, 457 against, 17 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 1 | 180 for, 455 against, 18 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 377 for, 254 against, 31 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 37 | 156 for, 405 against, 58 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Amendments to Parliament's Rules of Procedure concerning appointments to Union agencies and bodies (Rule 135) Final vote | Adopted 657 for, 0 against, 3 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Amendments to Biocidal Products Regulation as regards the extension of certain data protection periods Final vote | Passed 591 for, 54 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: workers affected by imminent job displacement Final vote on the provisional agreement | Passed 566 for, 67 against, 26 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Final vote | Passed 459 for, 127 against, 70 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability Final vote on the provisional agreement | Passed 558 for, 35 against, 52 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Abstained |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 139, adding text after Recital 27 | 171 for, 465 against, 10 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendments 125 + 129 (voted as one), adding text after Article 29 (corresponds to Article 34 in am 120) | 251 for, 334 against, 48 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 127, adding text after Article 29 (corresponds to Article 34 in am 120) | 169 for, 441 against, 37 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 130, adding text after Article 29 (corresponds to Article 34 in am 120) | 188 for, 437 against, 21 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 120 to Article 19, after paragraph 1 (corresponds to Article 22 in am 120) — part 3 | 502 for, 128 against, 16 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 124 to Article 19, After paragraph 1 (corresponds to Article 22 in am 120) | 95 for, 551 against, 9 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Proposal to vote on amendments | 412 for, 225 against, 13 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Proposal to reject the text | 39 for, 600 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 389 for, 191 against, 75 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III Amendment 66 to paragraph 63 | 164 for, 466 against, 17 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III Amendment 6 to paragraph 60 | 349 for, 264 against, 43 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 Economic and Monetary AffairsECON Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer ProtectionIMCO Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)DASE Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with Central AsiaDCAS Delegation | Substitute | 3 Oct 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | 2 Oct 2024 |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 26
- Justice, rule of law & rights 6
- EU budget & funds 5
- Foreign affairs 5
- EU institutions & Parliament 4
- Migration & asylum 4
- Digital, AI & data 3
- Defence & security 2
- Health 2
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- Climate & environment 1
- Energy 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.
30 contributions recorded; 12 on behalf of their group; 46 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026 | Hybrid attacks against the EU Member States (joint debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Presentation of the Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 6 Jul 2026 | Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025 (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 16 Jun 2026 | An EU future for the Western Balkans (joint debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Achieving digital sovereignty and resilience for Europe, in light of recent developments affecting access to advanced AI technologies (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 27 Apr 2026 | Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 10 Mar 2026 | European Semester (joint debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Single Market: how to move from an incomplete single market to one market for one Europe (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 9 Feb 2026 | European Central Bank – annual report 2025 (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Presentation of the European Affordable Housing Plan (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report 2024 (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Stepping up funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and defence: the use of Russian frozen assets (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 7 Oct 2025 | Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Bulgaria's adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026 (A10-0113/2025 - Eva Maydell) (vote) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Digital Markets, Digital Euro, Digital Identities: economical stimuli or trends toward dystopia (topical debate) | Speech · 4 min | Read |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 12 Mar 2025 | Frozen Russian assets (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 10 Mar 2025 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 10 Feb 2025 | European Central Bank – annual report 2024 (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 22 Jan 2025 | Addressing EU demographic challenges: towards the implementation of the 2023 Demography Toolbox (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Restoring the EU’s competitive edge – the need for an impact assessment on the Green Deal policies (topical debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 13 Nov 2024 | Fight against money laundering and terrorist financing: listing Russia as a high-risk third country in the EU (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 24 Oct 2024 | Closing the EU skills gap: supporting people in the digital and green transitions to ensure inclusive growth and competitiveness in line with the Draghi report (debate) on behalf of ESN | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 8 Oct 2024 | Outcome of the Summit of the Future: transforming global governance for building peace, promoting human rights and achieving the sustainable development goals (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 17 Sept 2024 | The future of European competitiveness (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 26
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 6
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
| Date | Text amended | Committee | Amendments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2025 | Establishment of the digital euro ECON-AM-781235 | ECON | 2 |
| 19 Dec 2025 | Legal tender of euro banknotes and coins ECON-AM-781237 | ECON | 16 |
| 19 Dec 2025 | Establishment of the digital euro ECON-AM-781499 | ECON | 1 |
| 19 Dec 2025 | Establishment of the digital euro ECON-AM-781500 | ECON | 9 |
| 19 Dec 2025 | Establishment of the digital euro ECON-AM-781501 | ECON | 7 |
| 11 Nov 2025 | European Central Bank – annual report 2025 ECON-AM-779370 | ECON | 35 |
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 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). “Rada LAYKOVA”. Member record. memberId 257262. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257262?page=31&speeches=all&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257262. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257262?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-257262,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Rada LAYKOVA}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257262?page=31&speeches=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257262?page=31&speeches=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257262. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257262. 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}
}