← Votes·2024-02-29

Implementation of the EU-Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)

Vote ID 164581Source: official EP roll-call records

Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗

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Importance Score

High importance

Why this vote stands out:

✓Main vote
✓Legislative procedure
✓Strong political group division
✓High participation
✓Many MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+0 / 15

Turnout+4 / 5

Vote type+25 / 25

Close vote+0 / 15

Legislative+15 / 15

Rebel votes+7 / 10

Group division+12 / 15

Country division+0 / 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 “Implementation of the EU-Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)”. EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens-EFA and NI voted mostly in favour, while Left voted mostly against. PfE, ECR and ESN mostly abstained. The motion was adopted by a comfortable margin (397 for, 47 against, 89 abstentions).

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

Why it matters

This is a main (final) vote on a dossier — the decisive moment where the European Parliament adopts or rejects a legislative or political text. These are the votes that most directly shape EU law and policy, and the ones citizens and journalists should watch most closely.

Result analysis

For

397

Against

Abstain

Margin of victory

350 votes

Turnout (cast)

533

Absent

172

Participation rate

75.6%

✓This was not a close vote — the margin was comfortable.

By political group

EPP179 MEPs

For 126Against 5Abstain 6Absent 42

S&D136 MEPs

For 101Against 0Abstain 0Absent 35

Renew100 MEPs

For 84Against 0Abstain 0Absent 16

Greens/EFA70 MEPs

For 57Against 0Abstain 0Absent 13

PfE64 MEPs

For 4Against 20Abstain 23Absent 17

ECR65 MEPs

For 0Against 2Abstain 43Absent 20

NI46 MEPs

For 17Against 5Abstain 6Absent 18

The Left38 MEPs

For 6Against 14Abstain 8Absent 10

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 2Absent 1

Country angle

Most in favour

Germany64
Spain39
France34
Italy30
Romania24

Most against

None.

Divided delegations

France
Greece

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 12Against 0Abstain 3Absent 4

Belgium21 MEPs

For 9Against 4Abstain 4Absent 4

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 10Against 0Abstain 2Absent 5

Croatia12 MEPs

For 7Against 1Abstain 2Absent 2

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 13Against 1Abstain 6Absent 1

Denmark14 MEPs

For 7Against 0Abstain 2Absent 5

Estonia7 MEPs

For 6Against 0Abstain 1Absent 0

Finland14 MEPs

For 9Against 0Abstain 1Absent 4

France79 MEPs

For 34Against 25Abstain 6Absent 14

Germany96 MEPs

For 64Against 1Abstain 12Absent 19

Greece21 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 16

Hungary21 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 0Absent 13

Ireland13 MEPs

For 9Against 3Abstain 0Absent 1

Italy76 MEPs

For 30Against 0Abstain 17Absent 29

Latvia8 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 0Absent 4

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 1Absent 2

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 6Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0

Malta6 MEPs

For 4Against 0Abstain 0Absent 2

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 20Against 1Abstain 4Absent 4

Poland52 MEPs

For 22Against 0Abstain 21Absent 9

Portugal21 MEPs

For 15Against 2Abstain 0Absent 4

Romania33 MEPs

For 24Against 0Abstain 2Absent 7

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 10Against 0Abstain 3Absent 1

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0

Spain59 MEPs

For 39Against 6Abstain 0Absent 14

Sweden21 MEPs

For 17Against 0Abstain 2Absent 2

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