← Votes·2024-02-26

Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the PPE Group (addition of Council and Commission statements)

Vote ID 165176Source: official EP roll-call records

Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗

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Importance Score

Low 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+0 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+6 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+7 / 10

Group division+10 / 15

Country division+8 / 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 by the PPE Group (addition of Council and Commission statements)”. EPP, Renew, PfE, ECR and NI voted mostly in favour, while S&D, Greens-EFA and Left voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a narrow margin (168 for, 143 against, 8 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

168

Against

143

Abstain

Margin of victory

25 votes

Turnout (cast)

319

Absent

384

Participation rate

45.4%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 25 votes. 384 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (384) was larger than the 25-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 108 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
S&Dhad 63 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
Renewhad 49 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
ECRhad 45 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
PfEhad 36 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
NIhad 34 absent MEPs (margin was 25)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Germany (45 absent)Italy (44 absent)Spain (42 absent)France (40 absent)Poland (30 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&D135 MEPs

For 6Against 64Abstain 2Absent 63

EPP178 MEPs

For 68Against 2Abstain 0Absent 108

Renew100 MEPs

For 45Against 3Abstain 3Absent 49

Greens/EFA70 MEPs

For 0Against 50Abstain 0Absent 20

PfE64 MEPs

For 27Against 1Abstain 0Absent 36

ECR65 MEPs

For 14Against 3Abstain 3Absent 45

The Left38 MEPs

For 1Against 14Abstain 0Absent 23

NI46 MEPs

For 6Against 6Abstain 0Absent 34

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 4

Country angle

Most in favour

France25
Italy20
Poland15
Netherlands11
Sweden10

Most against

Germany29
Spain11
Portugal10
Austria7
Belgium6

Divided delegations

Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Italy

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 2Against 7Abstain 0Absent 10

Belgium21 MEPs

For 5Against 6Abstain 0Absent 10

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 0Absent 14

Croatia12 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 1Absent 6

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 7Against 4Abstain 0Absent 10

Denmark14 MEPs

For 2Against 4Abstain 0Absent 8

Estonia7 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Finland14 MEPs

For 3Against 4Abstain 0Absent 7

France79 MEPs

For 25Against 14Abstain 0Absent 40

Germany96 MEPs

For 22Against 29Abstain 0Absent 45

Greece21 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 17

Hungary21 MEPs

For 5Against 2Abstain 1Absent 13

Ireland13 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 9

Italy76 MEPs

For 20Against 12Abstain 0Absent 44

Latvia8 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 7

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 1Absent 6

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta6 MEPs

For 2Against 0Abstain 0Absent 4

Netherlands28 MEPs

For 11Against 11Abstain 0Absent 6

Poland52 MEPs

For 15Against 5Abstain 2Absent 30

Portugal21 MEPs

For 4Against 10Abstain 0Absent 7

Romania33 MEPs

For 9Against 6Abstain 0Absent 18

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 1Absent 10

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 4Against 1Abstain 1Absent 2

Spain59 MEPs

For 5Against 11Abstain 1Absent 42

Sweden20 MEPs

For 10Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Individual MEP positions

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