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Agenda of Monday - Request from The Left Group

Vote ID 150262Source: official EP roll-call records

Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗

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Importance Score

Medium importance

Why this vote stands out:

✓Procedural or paragraph vote
✓Some political group division
✓Significant national delegation divergence
✓Close result
✓Many MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+0 / 15

Turnout+0 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+10 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+10 / 10

Group division+10 / 15

Country division+12 / 15

Methodology: importance-v0.1 · The Importance Score is a prioritisation indicator. It does not judge whether a vote is good or bad.

What was this vote about?

This vote concerned “Agenda of Monday - Request from The Left Group”. Renew, Greens-EFA, Left and NI voted mostly in favour, while S&D, EPP, PfE, ECR and ESN voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a narrow margin (181 for, 165 against, 32 abstentions).

Automated summary generated from official vote metadata and observed voting patterns. Not a legal interpretation.

Why it matters

This is a procedural vote — it concerns how Parliament organises its work rather than a substantive policy decision. It is generally of lower public-interest weight, though procedural votes can still signal political alignments. The outcome was close, which makes individual choices and absences especially consequential.

Result analysis

For

181

Against

165

Abstain

Margin of victory

16 votes

Turnout (cast)

378

Absent

323

Participation rate

53.9%

⚠️This was a close vote — the margin was small relative to the votes cast.

Close vote analysis

The margin was 16 votes. 323 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (323) was larger than the 16-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 100 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
S&Dhad 57 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
Renewhad 41 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
ECRhad 33 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
PfEhad 32 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
NIhad 25 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
Greens-EFAhad 20 absent MEPs (margin was 16)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Germany (47 absent)Italy (36 absent)Spain (31 absent)France (29 absent)Poland (21 absent)

Absences larger than the margin are numerically significant but do NOT imply the outcome would have changed. That would require modelling how each absent member would have voted, which this analysis does not do.

By political group

S&D136 MEPs

For 13Against 54Abstain 12Absent 57

EPP179 MEPs

For 6Against 67Abstain 6Absent 100

Renew98 MEPs

For 53Against 3Abstain 1Absent 41

Greens/EFA71 MEPs

For 51Against 0Abstain 0Absent 20

PfE65 MEPs

For 13Against 19Abstain 1Absent 32

ECR64 MEPs

For 10Against 11Abstain 10Absent 33

The Left37 MEPs

For 23Against 0Abstain 2Absent 12

NI45 MEPs

For 10Against 10Abstain 0Absent 25

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Country angle

Most in favour

France48
Germany26
Netherlands12
Belgium10
Czech Republic8

Most against

Italy25
Poland20
Hungary15
Spain15
Romania11

Divided delegations

Germany
Luxembourg
Romania
Spain

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 4Against 9Abstain 1Absent 5

Belgium21 MEPs

For 10Against 2Abstain 1Absent 8

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 3Absent 13

Croatia12 MEPs

For 2Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 0Against 2Abstain 0Absent 4

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 1Absent 12

Denmark11 MEPs

For 5Against 2Abstain 0Absent 4

Estonia7 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Finland14 MEPs

For 2Against 1Abstain 1Absent 10

France79 MEPs

For 48Against 2Abstain 0Absent 29

Germany96 MEPs

For 26Against 21Abstain 2Absent 47

Greece21 MEPs

For 7Against 3Abstain 0Absent 11

Hungary21 MEPs

For 1Against 15Abstain 0Absent 5

Ireland13 MEPs

For 2Against 1Abstain 2Absent 8

Italy75 MEPs

For 12Against 25Abstain 2Absent 36

Latvia8 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 7

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 7

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 1

Malta6 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 12Against 5Abstain 5Absent 7

Poland52 MEPs

For 4Against 20Abstain 7Absent 21

Portugal21 MEPs

For 5Against 10Abstain 1Absent 5

Romania33 MEPs

For 7Against 11Abstain 0Absent 15

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 1Absent 9

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 0Against 4Abstain 0Absent 4

Spain59 MEPs

For 11Against 15Abstain 2Absent 31

Sweden21 MEPs

For 8Against 3Abstain 3Absent 7

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