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Wednesday’s agenda – Request by The Left and Verts/ALE Groups

Vote ID 165178Source: 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 Left and Verts/ALE Groups”. S&D, Greens-EFA, NI and Left voted mostly in favour, while EPP, Renew, PfE and ECR voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a narrow margin (166 for, 145 against, 6 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

166

Against

145

Abstain

Margin of victory

21 votes

Turnout (cast)

317

Absent

386

Participation rate

45.1%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 21 votes. 386 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (386) was larger than the 21-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 109 absent MEPs (margin was 21)
S&Dhad 64 absent MEPs (margin was 21)
Renewhad 52 absent MEPs (margin was 21)
ECRhad 45 absent MEPs (margin was 21)
PfEhad 36 absent MEPs (margin was 21)
NIhad 30 absent MEPs (margin was 21)
Greens-EFAhad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 21)
Lefthad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 21)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Germany (48 absent)Italy (45 absent)Spain (40 absent)France (39 absent)Poland (31 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 70Against 1Abstain 0Absent 64

EPP178 MEPs

For 2Against 65Abstain 2Absent 109

Renew100 MEPs

For 5Against 41Abstain 2Absent 52

Greens/EFA70 MEPs

For 47Against 0Abstain 1Absent 22

PfE64 MEPs

For 13Against 14Abstain 1Absent 36

ECR65 MEPs

For 0Against 20Abstain 0Absent 45

NI46 MEPs

For 13Against 3Abstain 0Absent 30

The Left38 MEPs

For 16Against 0Abstain 0Absent 22

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 4

Country angle

Most in favour

Germany30
France26
Spain15
Portugal10
Austria7

Most against

Italy16
Poland16
Netherlands12
Romania9
Czech Republic8

Divided delegations

Belgium
Croatia
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
Malta
Netherlands

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 7Against 2Abstain 0Absent 10

Belgium21 MEPs

For 5Against 3Abstain 2Absent 11

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 2Against 1Abstain 0Absent 14

Croatia12 MEPs

For 3Against 3Abstain 0Absent 6

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 5

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 3Against 8Abstain 0Absent 10

Denmark14 MEPs

For 4Against 2Abstain 0Absent 8

Estonia7 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 6

Finland14 MEPs

For 3Against 3Abstain 0Absent 8

France79 MEPs

For 26Against 14Abstain 0Absent 39

Germany96 MEPs

For 30Against 17Abstain 1Absent 48

Greece21 MEPs

For 4Against 2Abstain 0Absent 15

Hungary21 MEPs

For 2Against 6Abstain 0Absent 13

Ireland13 MEPs

For 4Against 1Abstain 0Absent 8

Italy76 MEPs

For 14Against 16Abstain 1Absent 45

Latvia8 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 7

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 1Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta6 MEPs

For 1Against 1Abstain 0Absent 4

Netherlands28 MEPs

For 10Against 12Abstain 0Absent 6

Poland52 MEPs

For 5Against 16Abstain 0Absent 31

Portugal21 MEPs

For 10Against 3Abstain 1Absent 7

Romania33 MEPs

For 6Against 9Abstain 0Absent 18

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 9

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 2Against 4Abstain 0Absent 2

Spain59 MEPs

For 15Against 4Abstain 0Absent 40

Sweden20 MEPs

For 5Against 6Abstain 1Absent 8

Individual MEP positions

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