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Wednesday’s agenda – Request by The Left Group

Vote ID 171427Source: 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 Group”. PfE, Greens-EFA, ECR, Left, NI and ESN voted mostly in favour, while EPP, S&D and Renew voted mostly against. The motion was rejected by a narrow margin (196 for, 221 against, 10 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

196

Against

221

Abstain

Margin of victory

25 votes

Turnout (cast)

427

Absent

293

Participation rate

59.3%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 25 votes. 293 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (293) was larger than the 25-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 77 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
S&Dhad 59 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
ECRhad 46 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
PfEhad 30 absent MEPs (margin was 25)
Renewhad 30 absent MEPs (margin was 25)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Italy (39 absent)Spain (34 absent)Germany (33 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

EPP185 MEPs

For 3Against 104Abstain 1Absent 77

S&D135 MEPs

For 7Against 66Abstain 3Absent 59

PfE81 MEPs

For 49Against 1Abstain 1Absent 30

Renew79 MEPs

For 2Against 45Abstain 2Absent 30

Greens/EFA53 MEPs

For 43Against 0Abstain 1Absent 9

ECR82 MEPs

For 32Against 3Abstain 1Absent 46

The Left45 MEPs

For 34Against 0Abstain 0Absent 11

NI30 MEPs

For 19Against 1Abstain 1Absent 9

ESN26 MEPs

For 5Against 1Abstain 0Absent 20

Country angle

Most in favour

France41
Italy21
Poland19
Netherlands15
Hungary9

Most against

Germany32
Spain21
Romania12
Sweden10
Portugal8

Divided delegations

Belgium
Cyprus
Finland
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Latvia

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria20 MEPs

For 3Against 6Abstain 0Absent 11

Belgium22 MEPs

For 8Against 8Abstain 1Absent 5

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 2Against 6Abstain 0Absent 9

Croatia12 MEPs

For 2Against 6Abstain 0Absent 4

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 1Against 1Abstain 0Absent 4

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 6Against 3Abstain 1Absent 11

Denmark15 MEPs

For 2Against 6Abstain 0Absent 7

Estonia7 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 6

Finland15 MEPs

For 4Against 4Abstain 0Absent 7

France82 MEPs

For 41Against 17Abstain 0Absent 24

Germany96 MEPs

For 25Against 32Abstain 6Absent 33

Greece21 MEPs

For 6Against 6Abstain 0Absent 9

Hungary21 MEPs

For 9Against 5Abstain 0Absent 7

Ireland14 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 10

Italy76 MEPs

For 21Against 16Abstain 0Absent 39

Latvia9 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 5

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 7

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 2Against 3Abstain 0Absent 1

Malta6 MEPs

For 0Against 3Abstain 0Absent 3

Netherlands31 MEPs

For 15Against 10Abstain 0Absent 6

Poland53 MEPs

For 19Against 17Abstain 1Absent 16

Portugal21 MEPs

For 3Against 8Abstain 0Absent 10

Romania33 MEPs

For 3Against 12Abstain 1Absent 17

Slovakia15 MEPs

For 6Against 6Abstain 0Absent 3

Slovenia9 MEPs

For 2Against 6Abstain 0Absent 1

Spain60 MEPs

For 5Against 21Abstain 0Absent 34

Sweden21 MEPs

For 7Against 10Abstain 0Absent 4

Individual MEP positions

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