← Votes·2023-11-08

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

Vote ID 160018Source: 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+10 / 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 “Thursday’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 (192 for, 208 against, 26 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

192

Against

208

Abstain

Margin of victory

16 votes

Turnout (cast)

426

Absent

276

Participation rate

60.7%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 16 votes. 276 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (276) was larger than the 16-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 83 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
S&Dhad 44 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
Renewhad 40 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
ECRhad 34 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
NIhad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
Greens-EFAhad 21 absent MEPs (margin was 16)
PfEhad 21 absent MEPs (margin was 16)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Germany (49 absent)Italy (34 absent)Poland (29 absent)France (23 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 4Against 81Abstain 9Absent 83

S&D136 MEPs

For 86Against 4Abstain 2Absent 44

Renew100 MEPs

For 8Against 40Abstain 12Absent 40

Greens/EFA71 MEPs

For 50Against 0Abstain 0Absent 21

PfE64 MEPs

For 0Against 43Abstain 0Absent 21

ECR64 MEPs

For 1Against 28Abstain 1Absent 34

The Left37 MEPs

For 27Against 1Abstain 1Absent 8

NI46 MEPs

For 16Against 7Abstain 1Absent 22

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Country angle

Most in favour

Spain30
Germany24
Portugal9
Austria7
Denmark6

Most against

France27
Italy24
Poland15
Hungary11
Romania11

Divided delegations

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Denmark
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 7Against 4Abstain 0Absent 8

Belgium21 MEPs

For 6Against 7Abstain 2Absent 6

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 5Against 8Abstain 0Absent 4

Croatia12 MEPs

For 4Against 1Abstain 1Absent 6

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 0Absent 2

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 5Against 10Abstain 2Absent 4

Denmark14 MEPs

For 6Against 4Abstain 0Absent 4

Estonia7 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 0Absent 4

Finland14 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 0Absent 10

France79 MEPs

For 20Against 27Abstain 9Absent 23

Germany96 MEPs

For 24Against 21Abstain 2Absent 49

Greece21 MEPs

For 6Against 3Abstain 0Absent 12

Hungary21 MEPs

For 6Against 11Abstain 0Absent 4

Ireland13 MEPs

For 4Against 3Abstain 1Absent 5

Italy76 MEPs

For 18Against 24Abstain 0Absent 34

Latvia8 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 4

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 3Against 3Abstain 1Absent 4

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta6 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 8Against 9Abstain 1Absent 11

Poland49 MEPs

For 4Against 15Abstain 1Absent 29

Portugal21 MEPs

For 9Against 4Abstain 0Absent 8

Romania33 MEPs

For 6Against 11Abstain 1Absent 15

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 3Against 5Abstain 1Absent 5

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 2Against 4Abstain 1Absent 1

Spain59 MEPs

For 30Against 17Abstain 1Absent 11

Sweden21 MEPs