← Votes·2024-04-22

Tuesday’s agenda – Request by The Left and S&D groups

Vote ID 168686Source: 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 “Tuesday’s agenda – Request by The Left 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 rejected by a narrow margin (146 for, 169 against, 9 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

146

Against

169

Abstain

Margin of victory

23 votes

Turnout (cast)

324

Absent

381

Participation rate

46.0%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 23 votes. 381 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (381) was larger than the 23-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 107 absent MEPs (margin was 23)
S&Dhad 67 absent MEPs (margin was 23)
Renewhad 42 absent MEPs (margin was 23)
ECRhad 42 absent MEPs (margin was 23)
PfEhad 38 absent MEPs (margin was 23)
NIhad 35 absent MEPs (margin was 23)
Greens-EFAhad 24 absent MEPs (margin was 23)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Italy (54 absent)Germany (44 absent)Spain (34 absent)Poland (30 absent)France (27 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

EPP179 MEPs

For 2Against 67Abstain 3Absent 107

S&D136 MEPs

For 66Against 2Abstain 1Absent 67

Renew100 MEPs

For 11Against 46Abstain 1Absent 42

Greens/EFA70 MEPs

For 44Against 0Abstain 2Absent 24

PfE64 MEPs

For 0Against 26Abstain 0Absent 38

ECR65 MEPs

For 0Against 22Abstain 1Absent 42

The Left38 MEPs

For 15Against 0Abstain 1Absent 22

NI46 MEPs

For 8Against 3Abstain 0Absent 35

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Country angle

Most in favour

Spain15
Portugal11
Sweden11
Austria5
Denmark5

Most against

France31
Germany30
Poland14
Italy12
Netherlands12

Divided delegations

Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Italy

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 5Against 3Abstain 0Absent 11

Belgium21 MEPs

For 5Against 7Abstain 0Absent 9

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 0Absent 14

Croatia12 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 12

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 3Against 8Abstain 1Absent 9

Denmark14 MEPs

For 5Against 3Abstain 0Absent 6

Estonia7 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 7

Finland14 MEPs

For 3Against 3Abstain 0Absent 8

France79 MEPs

For 20Against 31Abstain 1Absent 27

Germany96 MEPs

For 20Against 30Abstain 2Absent 44

Greece21 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 16

Hungary21 MEPs

For 2Against 5Abstain 0Absent 14

Ireland13 MEPs

For 5Against 0Abstain 0Absent 8

Italy76 MEPs

For 10Against 12Abstain 0Absent 54

Latvia8 MEPs

For 1Against 1Abstain 0Absent 6

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 1Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta6 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 9Against 12Abstain 0Absent 8

Poland52 MEPs

For 6Against 14Abstain 2Absent 30

Portugal21 MEPs

For 11Against 2Abstain 2Absent 6

Romania33 MEPs

For 1Against 11Abstain 1Absent 20

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 10

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 3

Spain59 MEPs

For 15Against 10Abstain 0Absent 34

Sweden21 MEPs

For 11Against 3Abstain 0Absent 7

Individual MEP positions

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