Paragraph 43 — part 2 · Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 · Vote

Result

The vote as recorded by name.

Adopted · 57 % of the votes cast were for.

Part voted on: “reiterates its call for the introduction of qualified majority voting for decisions on the GHRSR;”

Groups

Members' votes, each counted in the group they belonged to on the day. **No vote**: in office that day, no position recorded. **Majority line**: the most common position. **Clear line**: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided. **Cohesion**: Agreement Index, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same (method).
Group	For	Against	Abst.	No vote	Majority line	Clear line	Cohesion
The Left	For 12	Against 13	Abst. 13	No vote 8 of 46	Majority line Tie	Clear line Divided	Cohesion 0.01
Greens	For 51	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 2 of 53	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
S&D	For 113	Against 11	Abst. 4	No vote 8 of 136	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.82
Renew	For 69	Against 2	Abst. 0	No vote 4 of 75	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.96
EPP	For 125	Against 33	Abst. 10	No vote 19 of 187	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.62
ECR	For 2	Against 69	Abst. 1	No vote 7 of 79	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 0.94
Patriots	For 0	Against 80	Abst. 0	No vote 6 of 86	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 1.00
ESN	For 0	Against 24	Abst. 0	No vote 3 of 27	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 1.00
No group	For 4	Against 22	Abst. 1	No vote 3 of 30	Majority line —	Clear line No line	Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group, Elena YONCHEVA changed group, Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group, Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group, Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Countries × groups

How each country’s members of each group voted.

Each cell: members of that country in that group who voted for – against – abstained (group at the date of the vote). Shading: the share of the cell's votes that were for; the stronger the shading, the more for (scale below). — : no member voted.
Country	The Left	Greens	S&D	Renew	EPP	ECR	Patriots	ESN	No group
Austria	no member voted	2–0–0	5–0–0	2–0–0	5–0–0	no member voted	0–6–0	no member voted	no member voted
Belgium	0–1–1	2–0–0	4–0–0	4–0–0	3–0–0	0–0–1	0–2–0	no member voted	no member voted
Bulgaria	no member voted	no member voted	2–0–0	3–0–0	5–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	0–3–0	1–1–0
Cyprus	0–1–0	no member voted	1–0–0	no member voted	0–2–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	0–1–0
Czechia	no member voted	1–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	4–1–0	0–3–0	0–8–0	0–1–0	0–2–0
Germany	1–1–0	15–0–0	13–0–0	7–0–0	29–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	0–12–0	1–7–1
Denmark	1–0–0	3–0–0	2–0–0	4–0–0	2–0–0	0–1–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted
Estonia	no member voted	no member voted	2–0–0	2–0–0	1–1–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Spain	2–0–1	4–0–0	18–0–0	1–0–0	20–0–0	2–0–0	0–6–0	no member voted	no member voted
Finland	3–0–0	2–0–0	2–0–0	3–0–0	4–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
France	2–7–0	4–0–0	12–0–0	13–0–0	0–4–1	0–4–0	0–29–0	0–1–0	1–0–0
Greece	1–0–1	no member voted	3–0–0	no member voted	6–0–0	0–2–0	0–1–0	no member voted	1–3–0
Croatia	no member voted	1–0–0	0–0–4	no member voted	0–6–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Hungary	no member voted	no member voted	2–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	0–10–0	0–1–0	no member voted
Ireland	0–0–2	no member voted	1–0–0	4–2–0	4–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Italy	1–0–8	4–0–0	19–1–0	no member voted	7–1–0	0–24–0	0–7–0	no member voted	no member voted
Lithuania	no member voted	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	3–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	0–1–0	no member voted
Luxembourg	no member voted	1–0–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	0–1–0
Latvia	no member voted	1–0–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	0–3–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted
Malta	no member voted	no member voted	0–3–0	no member voted	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Netherlands	no member voted	6–0–0	4–0–0	7–0–0	3–3–0	0–1–0	0–6–0	no member voted	no member voted
Poland	no member voted	no member voted	3–0–0	1–0–0	3–8–9	0–18–0	0–2–0	0–3–0	no member voted
Portugal	1–1–0	no member voted	8–0–0	1–0–0	6–1–0	no member voted	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted
Romania	no member voted	1–0–0	4–7–0	3–0–0	10–0–0	0–4–0	no member voted	no member voted	0–1–0
Sweden	0–2–0	2–0–0	4–0–0	3–0–0	5–0–0	0–3–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Slovenia	no member voted	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	1–4–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Slovakia	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	5–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	0–2–0	0–6–0

Share for: 0–19 %20–39 %40–59 %60–79 %80–100 %

EPP members by country who voted for, against or abstained (group at the date of the vote).
Country	For	Against	Abst.
Austria	5	0	0
Belgium	3	0	0
Bulgaria	5	0	0
Cyprus	0	2	0
Czechia	4	1	0
Germany	29	0	0
Denmark	2	0	0
Estonia	1	1	0
Spain	20	0	0
Finland	4	0	0
France	0	4	1
Greece	6	0	0
Croatia	0	6	0
Ireland	4	0	0
Italy	7	1	0
Lithuania	3	0	0
Luxembourg	2	0	0
Latvia	2	0	0
Malta	0	1	0
Netherlands	3	3	0
Poland	3	8	9
Portugal	6	1	0
Romania	10	0	0
Sweden	5	0	0
Slovenia	1	4	0
Slovakia	0	1	0

Members

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Members in office that day without a recorded position. No vote recorded is not the same as absent: leave, illness or chairing the sitting look the same.

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Name · group that day · country

Adrian-George AXINIA group that day: ECR · Romania
Aldo PATRICIELLO group that day: Patriots · Italy
Alexander JUNGBLUTH group that day: ESN · Germany
Alma EZCURRA ALMANSA group that day: EPP · Spain
Alvise PÉREZ group that day: No group · Spain
András GYÜRK group that day: Patriots · Hungary
András Tivadar KULJA group that day: EPP · Hungary
Andreas SCHWAB group that day: EPP · Germany
Anja HAZEKAMP group that day: The Left · Netherlands
Antonio DECARO group that day: S&D · Italy
António TÂNGER CORRÊA group that day: Patriots · Portugal
Assita KANKO group that day: ECR · Belgium
Carmen CRESPO DÍAZ group that day: EPP · Spain
Catherine GRISET group that day: Patriots · France
Chloé RIDEL group that day: S&D · France
Daniel CASPARY group that day: EPP · Germany
Daniel OBAJTEK group that day: ECR · Poland
Dóra DÁVID group that day: EPP · Hungary
Elena KOUNTOURA group that day: The Left · Greece
Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA group that day: EPP · Poland
Emmanouil KEFALOGIANNIS group that day: EPP · Greece
Eszter LAKOS group that day: EPP · Hungary
Eva MAYDELL group that day: EPP · Bulgaria
Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO group that day: EPP · Italy
Gabriella GERZSENYI group that day: EPP · Hungary
Gerolf ANNEMANS group that day: Patriots · Belgium
Gheorghe PIPEREA group that day: ECR · Romania
Grzegorz BRAUN group that day: No group · Poland
Janusz LEWANDOWSKI group that day: EPP · Poland
Javi LÓPEZ group that day: S&D · Spain
Joachim STREIT group that day: Renew · Germany
João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO group that day: Renew · Portugal
Johan VAN OVERTVELDT group that day: ECR · Belgium
Kinga KOLLÁR group that day: EPP · Hungary
Klara DOSTALOVA group that day: Patriots · Czechia
Laura BALLARÍN CEREZA group that day: S&D · Spain
Ľubica KARVAŠOVÁ group that day: Renew · Slovakia
Luis-Vicențiu LAZARUS group that day: No group · Romania
Łukasz KOHUT group that day: EPP · Poland
Luke Ming FLANAGAN group that day: The Left · Ireland
Małgorzata GOSIEWSKA group that day: ECR · Poland
Marie TOUSSAINT group that day: Greens · France
Martin GÜNTHER group that day: The Left · Germany
Martin SCHIRDEWAN group that day: The Left · Germany
Mimmo LUCANO group that day: The Left · Italy
Niels FUGLSANG group that day: S&D · Denmark
Nikos PAPPAS group that day: The Left · Greece
Pär HOLMGREN group that day: Greens · Sweden
Pernando BARRENA ARZA group that day: The Left · Spain
Peter AGIUS group that day: EPP · Malta
Péter MAGYAR group that day: EPP · Hungary
Petr BYSTRON group that day: ESN · Germany
René AUST group that day: ESN · Germany
Roberta METSOLA group that day: EPP · Malta
Sofie ERIKSSON group that day: S&D · Sweden
Sophie WILMÈS group that day: Renew · Belgium
Tobias CREMER group that day: S&D · Germany
Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ group that day: S&D · Lithuania
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI group that day: ECR · Lithuania
Zoltán TARR group that day: EPP · Hungary

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**Result**: for–against–abstained. **For**: share of the votes cast. **Requested by**: the groups that asked for a roll call.
Date	Vote	Kind	Result	For	Requested by	r · shared
2 Apr 2025	Paragraph 14 — part 3 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024	Split vote	357 for, 271 against, 27 abstained Adopted	For 55 %		r · shared0.85 605 voters
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**Result**: for–against–abstained. **For**: share of the votes cast. **Requested by**: the groups that asked for a roll call.
Date	Vote	Kind	Result	For	Requested by	r · shared
25 Nov 2025	Separate vote on recital K Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)	Separate vote	329 for, 277 against, 41 abstained Adopted	For 51 %	Requested by S&D	r · shared0.84 605 voters
29 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025	Final	328 for, 199 against, 98 abstained Adopted	For 52 %		r · shared0.84 583 voters
9 Sept 2025	Separate vote on paragraph 84 2023 and 2024 reports on Ukraine	Separate vote	335 for, 272 against, 21 abstained Adopted	For 53 %	Requested by ECR	r · shared0.83 584 voters
15 Sept 2026	Paragraph 9 — part 2 Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield	Split vote	413 for, 237 against, 17 abstained Adopted	For 62 %	Requested by ESN, Patriots	r · shared0.83 612 voters
29 Apr 2026	Paragraph 2 — part 2 Monitoring the application of European Union law in 2023, 2024 and 2025	Split vote	407 for, 190 against, 25 abstained Adopted	For 65 %	Requested by Patriots	r · shared0.83 579 voters
22 Oct 2025	Final vote — text as a whole Institutional consequences of the EU enlargement negotiations	Final	310 for, 277 against, 53 abstained Adopted	For 48 %		r · shared0.83 590 voters
29 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Monitoring the application of European Union law in 2023, 2024 and 2025	Final	416 for, 190 against, 15 abstained Adopted	For 67 %		r · shared0.82 578 voters

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The decision

Decision Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 Resolution · report by Francisco Assis 21 Jan 2026 Adopted

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Vote Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 — Amendment 19, adding text after paragraph 2 Roll-call vote · 21 Jan 2026 21 Jan 2026
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Vote Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 — Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 18 Roll-call vote · 21 Jan 2026 21 Jan 2026
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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-01-21/183698
Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 21 January 2026 (European Parliament)
Results of votes, sitting of 21 January 2026 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-01-21
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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European Parliament (2026). “Paragraph 43 — part 2 — Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025”. Vote, 21 January 2026. votingId 183698, reference 2025/2166(INI). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-01-21/183698 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 21 January 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-21-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 21 January 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-21-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-01-21, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-01-21/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-vote-2026-01-21-183698,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Paragraph 43 — part 2 — Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-01-21},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-01-21/183698}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-01-21/183698},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 183698, reference 2025/2166(INI). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-21-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-21-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-01-21 (CC BY 4.0)}
}