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Final vote on the motion for a resolution

The arbitrary detention of President Mohamed Bazoum by the junta in Niger

Vote
Final vote on the motion for a resolution
Decision
No. 4 of the sitting of 12 Mar 2026
Result
524 for · 2 against · 29 abstained Adopted · roll call
Date
12 March 2026, 12:04
More facts (7)
Effect
Adopted — this vote decided the decision
Position
vote 1 of 7 on the decision
Requested by
roll call: Renew
Official label
RC-B10-0159/2026 – Motion for a resolution
Text
Motion B-10-2026-0163
Dossier
2026/2642(RSP)
Vote id
189129
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The members file includes members in office who did not vote.

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Result

The vote as recorded by name.

Result: 524 for, 2 against, 29 abstained (roll call).

Adopted · 94 % 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 34Against 0Abst. 0No vote 12 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 45Against 0Abst. 0No vote 8 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 108Against 0Abst. 0No vote 27 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 60Against 0Abst. 0No vote 16 of 76Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 143Against 0Abst. 0No vote 41 of 184Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 60Against 0Abst. 1No vote 20 of 81Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
PatriotsFor 51Against 0Abst. 5No vote 28 of 84Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.87
ESNFor 13Against 1Abst. 9No vote 5 of 28Majority line ForClear line Divided Cohesion 0.35
No groupFor 10Against 1Abst. 14No vote 6 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
Austria600
Belgium300
Czechia700
Spain400
France1800
Greece100
Italy700
Latvia100
Netherlands005
Poland200
Portugal200

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, 163

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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Groups’ lines side by side, and the members who switched between the two votes.

Connections

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Sources & citation

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Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-03-12/189129
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Final vote on the motion for a resolution — The arbitrary detention of President Mohamed Bazoum by the junta in Niger”. Vote, 12 March 2026. votingId 189129, reference 2026/2642(RSP). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-03-12/189129 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 12 March 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-12-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 12 March 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-12-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-03-12, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-03-12/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-vote-2026-03-12-189129,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Final vote on the motion for a resolution — The arbitrary detention of President Mohamed Bazoum by the junta in Niger}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-03-12},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-03-12/189129}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-03-12/189129},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 189129, reference 2026/2642(RSP). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-12-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-12-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-03-12 (CC BY 4.0)}
}