← Votes·2024-03-11

Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE and S&D groups

Vote ID 166326Source: 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
✓Very 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+12 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+10 / 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 “Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE and S&D groups”. S&D, Greens-EFA, Left and NI voted mostly in favour, while EPP, Renew, PfE, ECR and ESN voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a narrow margin (156 for, 151 against, 5 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

156

Against

151

Abstain

Margin of victory

5 votes

Turnout (cast)

312

Absent

392

Participation rate

44.3%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 5 votes. 392 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (392) was larger than the 5-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 109 absent MEPs (margin was 5)
S&Dhad 66 absent MEPs (margin was 5)
Renewhad 54 absent MEPs (margin was 5)
ECRhad 41 absent MEPs (margin was 5)
PfEhad 36 absent MEPs (margin was 5)
NIhad 32 absent MEPs (margin was 5)
Greens-EFAhad 28 absent MEPs (margin was 5)
Lefthad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 5)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Germany (54 absent)Italy (46 absent)France (35 absent)Spain (35 absent)Poland (30 absent)Romania (23 absent)Greece (14 absent)Hungary (13 absent)Sweden (12 absent)Czech Republic (11 absent)Belgium (10 absent)Bulgaria (10 absent)Ireland (10 absent)Denmark (9 absent)Netherlands (9 absent)Austria (8 absent)Finland (8 absent)Lithuania (8 absent)Portugal (8 absent)Croatia (7 absent)Cyprus (6 absent)Estonia (6 absent)Slovakia (6 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&D136 MEPs

For 69Against 1Abstain 0Absent 66

EPP179 MEPs

For 2Against 66Abstain 2Absent 109

Renew100 MEPs

For 7Against 38Abstain 1Absent 54

Greens/EFA69 MEPs

For 41Against 0Abstain 0Absent 28

PfE64 MEPs

For 12Against 16Abstain 0Absent 36

ECR65 MEPs

For 0Against 22Abstain 2Absent 41

The Left38 MEPs

For 16Against 0Abstain 0Absent 22

NI46 MEPs

For 9Against 5Abstain 0Absent 32

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Country angle

Most in favour

France27
Spain17
Portugal10
Austria6
Belgium5

Most against

Germany21
Italy18
Poland16
Netherlands11
Czech Republic7

Divided delegations

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Italy

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 6Against 5Abstain 0Absent 8

Belgium21 MEPs

For 5Against 5Abstain 1Absent 10

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 3Against 4Abstain 0Absent 10

Croatia12 MEPs

For 1Against 4Abstain 0Absent 7

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 3Against 7Abstain 0Absent 11

Denmark14 MEPs

For 5Against 0Abstain 0Absent 9

Estonia7 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 6

Finland14 MEPs

For 3Against 3Abstain 0Absent 8

France79 MEPs

For 27Against 17Abstain 0Absent 35

Germany95 MEPs

For 20Against 21Abstain 0Absent 54

Greece21 MEPs

For 5Against 2Abstain 0Absent 14

Hungary21 MEPs

For 4Against 4Abstain 0Absent 13

Ireland13 MEPs

For 3Against 0Abstain 0Absent 10

Italy76 MEPs

For 12Against 18Abstain 0Absent 46

Latvia8 MEPs

For 2Against 1Abstain 0Absent 5

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 0Against 3Abstain 0Absent 8

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 2Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Malta6 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 8Against 11Abstain 1Absent 9

Poland52 MEPs

For 5Against 16Abstain 1Absent 30

Portugal21 MEPs

For 10Against 2Abstain 1Absent 8

Romania33 MEPs

For 3Against 7Abstain 0Absent 23

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 3Against 4Abstain 1Absent 6

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 4Against 3Abstain 0Absent 1

Spain59 MEPs

For 17Against 7Abstain 0Absent 35

Sweden21 MEPs

For 5Against 4Abstain 0Absent 12

Individual MEP positions

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