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Final vote on the draft Council decision

Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth

Vote
Final vote on the draft Council decision
Decision
No. 4 of the sitting of 29 Apr 2026
Result
616 for · 24 against · 8 abstained Adopted · roll call
Date
29 April 2026, 13:14
More facts (6)
Effect
Consent given — this vote decided the decision
Position
vote 1 of 1 on the decision
Official label
A10-0123/2026 – Juan Fernando López Aguilar – Draft Council decision
Text
Report A-10-2026-0123
Dossier
2025/0900(APP)
Vote id
191581
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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: 616 for, 24 against, 8 abstained (roll call).

Adopted · 95 % 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 44Against 0Abst. 0No vote 2 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 44Against 0Abst. 0No vote 9 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 123Against 0Abst. 0No vote 12 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 69Against 0Abst. 0No vote 8 of 77Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 163Against 0Abst. 0No vote 22 of 185Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 79Against 0Abst. 0No vote 2 of 81Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
PatriotsFor 69Against 6Abst. 0No vote 10 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.88
ESNFor 8Against 14Abst. 4No vote 1 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Divided Cohesion 0.31
No groupFor 17Against 4Abst. 4No vote 5 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, 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
Belgium300
Czechia700
Denmark100
Spain500
France2800
Greece100
Hungary700
Italy600
Netherlands600
Poland300
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, 71

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.

Show the 71 members

Name · group that day · country

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.

Compare with another vote

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

Connections

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

Show 1 connection: The decision

The decision

Sources & citation

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

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-04-29/191581
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Final vote on the draft Council decision — Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth”. Vote, 29 April 2026. votingId 191581, reference 2025/0900(APP). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-04-29/191581 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 29 April 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 29 April 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-04-29, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-04-29/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-vote-2026-04-29-191581,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Final vote on the draft Council decision — Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-04-29},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-04-29/191581}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2026-04-29/191581},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 191581, reference 2025/0900(APP). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-04-29 (CC BY 4.0)}
}