Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth

Procedure 2025/0900(APP) (consent procedure) concerns “Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth”; the committee responsible is AFCO (Constitutional Affairs). Concluded in Parliament: Latest: EP decision on 29 Apr 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 29 Apr 2026 (final vote): adopted with 616 votes in favour, 24 against and 8 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0900(APP)

Type

Consent procedure

Official title

Amending the Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, annexed to Council Decision 76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 20 September 1976

Status

Concluded in Parliament

Lead

AFCO Constitutional Affairs

Rapporteur

Juan Fernando López Aguilar (S&D, Spain)

Shadow rapporteurs

Nikolas Farantouris (The Left, Greece), Daniel Freund (Greens/EFA, Germany), Sandro Gozi (Renew, France), Ana Miguel Pedro (EPP, Portugal), Tobiasz Bocheński (ECR, Poland), Marieke Ehlers (PfE, Netherlands), Stanisław Tyszka (ESN, Poland)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth (A10-0123/2026), 29 Apr 2026: final vote, adopted, 616 for, 24 against, 8 abstentions

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 26 May 2026: Council (General Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 26 for, 0 against, 1 abstention. Abstained: Germany. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1. 12 Jan 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur
2. 25 Mar 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
3. 27 Apr 2026: Proposal referred to plenary; Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible; Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
4. 29 Apr 2026: EP decision

• All procedures

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Votes in the Council: Council of the European Union, voting results (consilium.europa.eu), reused with acknowledgement of the source under Decision (EU) 2017/1842; population figures from the Council’s Rules of Procedure (Annex III, Official Journal of the EU). Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)