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Final vote on the draft Council decision

Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law

Vote
Final vote on the draft Council decision
Decision
No. 2 of the sitting of 11 Mar 2026
Result
455 for · 101 against · 74 abstained Adopted · roll call
Date
11 March 2026, 12:49
More facts (6)
Effect
Consent given — this vote decided the decision
Position
vote 1 of 1 on the decision
Official label
A10-0007/2026 – José Cepeda, Paulo Cunha – Draft Council decision
Text
Report A-10-2026-0007
Dossier
2025/0136(NLE)
Vote id
186516
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Result

The vote as recorded by name.

Result: 455 for, 101 against, 74 abstained (roll call).

Adopted · 72 % of the votes cast were for.

This was the final vote on the decision: Consent given.

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 42Against 0Abst. 1No vote 3 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.97
GreensFor 47Against 0Abst. 0No vote 6 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 116Against 0Abst. 0No vote 19 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 69Against 0Abst. 0No vote 7 of 76Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 164Against 0Abst. 0No vote 20 of 184Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 3Against 11Abst. 63No vote 4 of 81Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.73
PatriotsFor 0Against 56Abst. 7No vote 21 of 84Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.83
ESNFor 0Against 25Abst. 0No vote 3 of 28Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 14Against 9Abst. 3No vote 5 of 31Majority 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, Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Countries × groups

How each country’s members of each group voted.

Patriots members by country who voted for, against or abstained (group at the date of the vote).
CountryForAgainstAbst.Bar
Austria060
Belgium030
Czechia016
Denmark010
Spain040
France0171
Greece010
Hungary060
Italy070
Latvia010
Netherlands050
Poland020
Portugal020

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, 88

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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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.

Result: for–against–abstained. For: share of the votes cast. Requested by: the groups that asked for a roll call.
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Result: for–against–abstained. For: share of the votes cast. Requested by: the groups that asked for a roll call.
DateVoteKindResultForRequested byr · shared
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22 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilFinal441 for, 125 against, 73 abstained Adopted For 69 %r · shared0.92 563 voters
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Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-03-11/186516
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Final vote on the draft Council decision — Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law”. Vote, 11 March 2026. votingId 186516, reference 2025/0136(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-03-11/186516 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 11 March 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 11 March 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-03-11, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-03-11/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-vote-2026-03-11-186516,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Final vote on the draft Council decision — Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-03-11},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-03-11/186516}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-03-11/186516},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 186516, reference 2025/0136(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-03-11 (CC BY 4.0)}
}