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Final vote on the motion for a resolution

Conviction and imminent sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong

Vote
Final vote on the motion for a resolution
Decision
No. 4 of the sitting of 22 Jan 2026
Result
503 for · 9 against · 100 abstained Adopted · roll call
Date
22 January 2026, 12:05
More facts (7)
Effect
Adopted — this vote decided the decision
Position
vote 1 of 6 on the decision
Requested by
roll call: Renew
Official label
RC-B10-0068/2026 – Motion for a resolution
Text
Motion B-10-2026-0082
Dossier
2026/2573(RSP)
Vote id
184067
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The members file includes members in office who did not vote.

Roll-call results (EP) (opens the official site)
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Result

The vote as recorded by name.

Result: 503 for, 9 against, 100 abstained (roll call).

Adopted · 82 % of the votes cast were for.

This was the final vote on the decision: Adopted.

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).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 11Against 1Abst. 21No vote 13 of 46Majority line AbstainedClear line Divided Cohesion 0.45
GreensFor 49Against 0Abst. 0No vote 4 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 112Against 0Abst. 0No vote 24 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 64Against 0Abst. 0No vote 11 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 168Against 0Abst. 0No vote 19 of 187Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 61Against 0Abst. 3No vote 15 of 79Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.93
PatriotsFor 27Against 0Abst. 42No vote 17 of 86Majority line AbstainedClear line Divided Cohesion 0.41
ESNFor 2Against 0Abst. 24No vote 1 of 27Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.88
No groupFor 9Against 8Abst. 10No vote 3 of 30Majority 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.

No group members by country who voted for, against or abstained (group at the date of the vote).
CountryForAgainstAbst.Bar
Bulgaria200
Cyprus100
Czechia020
Germany251
France100
Greece202
Luxembourg001
Romania101
Slovakia015

Members

Each member’s recorded position, in the group they sat in that day. Filter by country, group, position or name.

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No vote recorded, 107

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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Similar votes

Roll calls that split the chamber the most similarly: r is the correlation of members’ positions, over the members who voted in both. Other votes on the same decision are left out.

The minority on this vote was under 10 % of the votes cast — too small to compare how it split the chamber.

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Connections

This vote’s decision, the other votes on it, and related votes.

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Sources & citation

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Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-01-22/184067
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Final vote on the motion for a resolution — Conviction and imminent sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong”. Vote, 22 January 2026. votingId 184067, reference 2026/2573(RSP). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-01-22/184067 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 22 January 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-22-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 22 January 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-22-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-01-22, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-01-22/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-vote-2026-01-22-184067,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Final vote on the motion for a resolution — Conviction and imminent sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-01-22},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-01-22/184067}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-01-22/184067},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 184067, reference 2026/2573(RSP). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-22-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-22-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-01-22 (CC BY 4.0)}
}