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European Parliament adopted a text it titles “Attempts by the ruling party Georgian Dream to ban opposition parties in Georgia”

On 8 October 2026 the European Parliament recorded a final vote as adopted, with 445 in favour, 37 against and 97 abstentions.

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579 votes recorded in total, by electronic roll-call vote. Identified as the final vote by Parliament’s own marker, “Motion for a resolution (as a whole)”. This is the count Parliament recorded, and nothing more: it does not establish what the text does, how any member voted, what majority was required, or that anything is now in force.

On 8 October 2026 the European Parliament held a final vote on a document it titles “Attempts by the ruling party Georgian Dream to ban opposition parties in Georgia”, recorded as B10-0447/2026, B10-0457/2026, B10-0443/2026, B10-0448/2026, B10-0456/2026, B10-0459/2026.

Parliament recorded the result as adopted, with 445 votes in favour, 37 against and 97 abstentions — 579 votes recorded in total.

Parliament records this decision under “Motion for a resolution (as a whole)”, which is how the final vote on the text is identified here. The vote was taken by electronic roll-call vote.

Parliament records the procedure as: Motions for resolutions: RC-B10-0443/2026, B10-0443/2026, B10-0447/2026, B10-0448/2026, B10-0456/2026, B10-0457/2026, B10-0459/2026 (Majority of votes cast required)

The wording in quotation marks above is the title Parliament gave the document, reproduced so that the record can be identified. It is not this service's description of the subject, and quoting it is not an endorsement of any claim it contains.

This record establishes that Parliament took this decision on 8 October 2026 and what the recorded counts were. It does not establish that any statement made in the document is correct, and it does not mean that legislation has entered into force: a vote in Parliament is one step in a longer procedure.

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Event occurred: 8 October 2026, 12:00 UTC (as recorded by the source)
Published here: 9 October 2026, 14:21 UTC

Evidence

Original record: https://data.europarl.europa.eu/en/meeting/MTG-PL-2026-10-08
Record identifier: MTG-PL-2026-10-08-VOT-ITM-993194
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 14:21 UTC
Snapshot checksum: 431f1477c64e731320e339340694a254c3fd453883b090682c94161ecd9a0406
Attribution: Source: European Parliament Open Data Portal. — Rules on the European Parliament's open data (CC BY 4.0)

Where each figure above comes from (9 values)

Value	As published	Origin	Source field or calculation
Document title, as recorded by Parliament	Attempts by the ruling party Georgian Dream to ban opposition parties in Georgia	field	vote-results[].activity_label.en Reported as the title Parliament gave the document. The title is not adopted as this service's own description.
Document reference	B10-0447/2026, B10-0457/2026, B10-0443/2026, B10-0448/2026, B10-0456/2026, B10-0459/2026	calculation	'A-10-2026-0002' -> 'A10-0002/2026'
Vote date	2026-10-08	field	vote-results[].activity_date
How the final vote was identified	Motion for a resolution (as a whole)	field	decisions[].referenceText.en / headingLabel.en Finality comes from Parliament's own whole-text marker. It is never inferred from vote counts or from a session having only one decision.
Recorded decision	adopted	field	decisions[].decision_outcome
Votes in favour	445	field	decisions[].number_of_votes_favor
Votes against	37	field	decisions[].number_of_votes_against
Abstentions	97	field	decisions[].number_of_votes_abstention
Votes recorded in total	579	calculation	favour + against + abstentions

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Revision history

9 October 2026, 14:21 UTC — The source revised its record

The source record now contains the information this brief requires.

What this record does not establish

Final plenary votes on a text as a whole, where Parliament's own record identifies the document explicitly and reports both an outcome and aggregate counts. Amendment votes, split and separate votes, procedural motions, votes taken by show of hands without recorded counts, and sittings where no single whole-text vote can be identified with certainty are all excluded, and the excluded cases are the majority. How individual members voted is discarded at ingestion and never stored, so this service cannot answer questions about it. A document's title is reproduced as Parliament's title, to identify the record; it is not this service's description of the subject, and a vote does not establish that anything the document says is correct.

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