← Votes·2023-11-08

Wednesday’s Agenda - Request from the Verts/ALE group

Vote ID 160017Source: 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
✓Some national delegation divergence
✓Close result
✓Many MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+0 / 15

Turnout+2 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+10 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+7 / 10

Group division+10 / 15

Country division+10 / 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 “Wednesday’s Agenda - Request from the Verts/ALE group”. S&D, Greens-EFA, Left and NI voted mostly in favour, while EPP, Renew, PfE, ECR and ESN voted mostly against. The motion was rejected by a narrow margin (199 for, 219 against, 14 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

199

Against

219

Abstain

Margin of victory

20 votes

Turnout (cast)

432

Absent

270

Participation rate

61.5%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 20 votes. 270 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (270) was larger than the 20-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 80 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
S&Dhad 44 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
Renewhad 39 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
ECRhad 33 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
NIhad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
PfEhad 21 absent MEPs (margin was 20)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Germany (45 absent)Italy (34 absent)Poland (29 absent)France (26 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

EPP177 MEPs

For 3Against 92Abstain 2Absent 80

S&D136 MEPs

For 88Against 2Abstain 2Absent 44

Renew100 MEPs

For 10Against 47Abstain 4Absent 39

Greens/EFA71 MEPs

For 53Against 0Abstain 0Absent 18

PfE64 MEPs

For 0Against 40Abstain 3Absent 21

ECR64 MEPs

For 1Against 29Abstain 1Absent 33

The Left37 MEPs

For 28Against 0Abstain 0Absent 9

NI46 MEPs

For 16Against 6Abstain 2Absent 22

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Country angle

Most in favour

Spain31
Germany27
Portugal11
Austria7
Sweden7

Most against

France32
Italy23
Poland14
Hungary12
Czech Republic11

Divided delegations

Austria
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Lithuania

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 7Against 5Abstain 0Absent 7

Belgium21 MEPs

For 6Against 5Abstain 4Absent 6

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 4Against 9Abstain 0Absent 4

Croatia12 MEPs

For 2Against 4Abstain 1Absent 5

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 0Absent 2

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 4Against 11Abstain 1Absent 5

Denmark14 MEPs

For 6Against 4Abstain 0Absent 4

Estonia7 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 0Absent 4

Finland14 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 0Absent 10

France79 MEPs

For 19Against 32Abstain 2Absent 26

Germany96 MEPs

For 27Against 23Abstain 1Absent 45

Greece21 MEPs

For 6Against 2Abstain 0Absent 13

Hungary21 MEPs

For 5Against 12Abstain 0Absent 4

Ireland13 MEPs

For 5Against 4Abstain 0Absent 4

Italy76 MEPs

For 18Against 23Abstain 1Absent 34

Latvia8 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 4

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 3Against 4Abstain 0Absent 4

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta6 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 8Against 11Abstain 0Absent 10

Poland49 MEPs

For 5Against 14Abstain 1Absent 29

Portugal21 MEPs

For 11Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Romania33 MEPs

For 8Against 9Abstain 1Absent 15

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 4Against 4Abstain 1Absent 5

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 3Against 4Abstain 0Absent 1

Spain59 MEPs

For 31Against 18Abstain 0Absent 10

Sweden21 MEPs

For 7Against 7Abstain 1Absent 6

Individual MEP positions

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