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Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE and The Left groups – Surveillance by illegal spyware

Civil Liberties64%★

Confidence: 64%

Assigned by: rule-based classifier

Evidence:

title/description contains "surveillance"

Reviewed: no

Methodology: topic-rules-v0.1

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Vote ID 195336Source: 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
✓Some MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+8 / 15

Turnout+2 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+12 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+4 / 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 Verts/ALE and The Left groups – Surveillance by illegal spyware”. S&D, Renew, Greens-EFA, Left and NI voted mostly in favour, while EPP, PfE, ECR and ESN voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a narrow margin (221 for, 213 against, 12 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

221

Against

213

Abstain

Margin of victory

8 votes

Turnout (cast)

446

Absent

245

Participation rate

64.5%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 8 votes. 245 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (245) was larger than the 8-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 59 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
S&Dhad 48 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
ECRhad 47 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
Renewhad 26 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
PfEhad 19 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
Lefthad 15 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
ESNhad 15 absent MEPs (margin was 8)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Italy (42 absent)Germany (34 absent)Poland (20 absent)Romania (19 absent)France (18 absent)Spain (17 absent)Portugal (10 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

EPP181 MEPs

For 1Against 120Abstain 1Absent 59

S&D132 MEPs

For 84Against 0Abstain 0Absent 48

PfE80 MEPs

For 1Against 59Abstain 1Absent 19

Renew74 MEPs

For 48Against 0Abstain 0Absent 26

Greens/EFA50 MEPs

For 42Against 0Abstain 0Absent 8

ECR78 MEPs

For 1Against 24Abstain 6Absent 47

The Left41 MEPs

For 26Against 0Abstain 0Absent 15

NI28 MEPs

For 14Against 5Abstain 1Absent 8

ESN26 MEPs

For 3Against 5Abstain 3Absent 15

Country angle

Most in favour

Germany37
France31
Spain22
Italy17
Netherlands14

Most against

Poland31
Hungary13
Czech Republic11
Austria9
Romania7

Divided delegations

Austria
Bulgaria
Croatia
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 8Against 9Abstain 0Absent 2

Belgium22 MEPs

For 9Against 3Abstain 2Absent 8

Bulgaria15 MEPs

For 5Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Croatia12 MEPs

For 3Against 4Abstain 0Absent 5

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 0Absent 3

Czech Republic18 MEPs

For 3Against 11Abstain 2Absent 2

Denmark15 MEPs

For 9Against 3Abstain 0Absent 3

Estonia7 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 7

Finland15 MEPs

For 6Against 3Abstain 0Absent 6

France77 MEPs

For 31Against 28Abstain 0Absent 18

Germany95 MEPs

For 37Against 21Abstain 3Absent 34

Greece20 MEPs

For 10Against 6Abstain 0Absent 4

Hungary19 MEPs

For 1Against 13Abstain 0Absent 5

Ireland13 MEPs

For 2Against 3Abstain 0Absent 8

Italy71 MEPs

For 17Against 12Abstain 0Absent 42

Latvia9 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 5

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 4Against 2Abstain 0Absent 5

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta5 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 0Absent 2

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 14Against 8Abstain 1Absent 6

Poland53 MEPs

For 2Against 31Abstain 0Absent 20

Portugal20 MEPs

For 5Against 5Abstain 0Absent 10

Romania31 MEPs

For 5Against 7Abstain 0Absent 19

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 6Against 5Abstain 1Absent 2

Slovenia9 MEPs

For 4Against 3Abstain 0Absent 2

Spain59 MEPs

For 22Against 20Abstain 0Absent 17

Sweden21 MEPs

For 12Against 4Abstain 3Absent 2

Individual MEP positions

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