
Member of the European Parliament · Spain EPP
Gabriel Mato
MEP for Spain · European People's Party · Partido Popular · official EP profile
As of 14 September 2026, Gabriel Mato (EPP, Spain) has declared 161 lobby meetings this term - rank 118 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.
That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 1.9× the average member, and 38 of 185 within European People's Party.
6% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - below the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.
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Compared with the averages
Transparency this term
Monthly declared meetings (bars) and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link, including diplomatic and government entries (line), July 2024 to September 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.
Current month, partial through 11 Sep 2026: 0 declared meetings in Sep 2026. Peak: 18 in Nov 2025.
Busiest month: 18 declared in November 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.
Who Gabriel Mato meets most
| Declared counterpart | Meetings |
|---|---|
| Human Rights Defenders | 4 |
| SPG | 4 |
| Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung | 2 |
| CAISSE DES DEPOTS | 2 |
| The EU Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry | 2 |
Counterparts are merged by resolved Transparency Register identity where possible. An entry counts as register-linked above only when the MEP declaration itself carries a Register link.
Where the meetings cluster
Most-met sectors
Agriculture & food (8), Human rights & humanitarian (3), Think tanks & research (3)
Meetings by committee topic
International Trade (57), DLAT (32), Fisheries (15), Foreign Affairs (14), Agriculture and Rural Development (12), D-CL (1)
Most recent declared meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | Ministry of Commerce of Pakistan | Member | Meeting with Mr Bilal Shahid |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Human Right Director of Ayuda en Acción | Delegation chair | Meeting with Alberto Casado |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Cantabria Delegation in Brussels | Member | Meeting with The Cantabria Government Delegation in Brussels |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Director of Corporate Affairs at CECA and the responsible for the Brussels office | Member | Meeting with Javier Figaredo and Adrien Boudet |
| 16 Jun 2026 | The Andean Parliament | Delegation chair | Meeting with the delegation of the Andean Parliament |
| 10 Jun 2026 | South American Delegation | Delegation chair | Meeting with Suju |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Piemonte Region of INTA | Member | Meeting with the President of the Piemonte Region (INTA) |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Human Rights defender of Venezuela | Delegation chair | Meeting with Sairam Rivas |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Vice-president and president of Anafric | Member | Meeting with Antonio Jove Ris and José Friguls Joé |
| 4 Jun 2026 | AmCham | Member | Meeting with AmCham representative |
Show 20 more meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Jun 2026 | Neova Group | Member | Meeting with Neova Group representatives |
| 3 Jun 2026 | Valls Companys Group | Member | Meeting with Valls Companys Group respresentatives |
| 3 Jun 2026 | The Chancellor of Guatemala | Delegation chair | Meeting with Ramiro Martinez |
| 2 Jun 2026 | The Chancellor of Costa Rica | Delegation chair | Meeting with Manuel Tovar Rivera. |
| 12 May 2026 | The ODCA Vice-president and Human Rights representative | Delegation chair | Observatory Meeting |
| 12 May 2026 | iEthanol, the European Industrial and Beverage Ethanol Association ↗ | Member | Meeting with iEthanol |
| 7 May 2026 | UNWRA | Delegation chair | Meeting with UNWRA Palestine |
| 6 May 2026 | Peruvian NGO´s | Delegation chair | Meeting with Cooper Action and Red Muqui |
| 21 Apr 2026 | The Venezuelan Ombudsman | Delegation chair | Meeting with the venezuelan human rights delegation |
| 20 Apr 2026 | South Korean embassy | Member | Meeting with the South Korean embassy |
| 9 Apr 2026 | FEDIOL | Committee chair | Meeting with FEDIOL |
| 24 Mar 2026 | ACIT | Member | Meeting with Canary Association of Tobacco Manufacturers (ACIT) |
| 19 Mar 2026 | GALP | Member | Meeting with Local Fisheries Action Groups (GALP) |
| 17 Mar 2026 | President of ASCAV and Vice President of ASCAV | Member | Meeting with Doris Borrego and Javier Valentín |
| 17 Mar 2026 | McDonald’s | Member | Meeting with Representative |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Executive Director of the EU‑LAC Foundation | Delegation chair | Meeting with Alberto Brunori |
| 11 Mar 2026 | CDC | Member | Meeting – EU-LAC Cooperation (CDC) |
| 10 Mar 2026 | SPG | Committee chair | Meeting with Copa-Cogeca |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Director of the OEI Office in Colombia | Delegation chair | Meeting with Donatella Montaldo |
| 4 Mar 2026 | EU Ambassador to Mexico | Member | Meeting with Gautier Mignot |
The full record is in the official EP declarations.
Roll-call voting record
Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Gabriel Mato held the seat, 537 of them the final vote on a text. A member with no vote recorded may have been on parliamentary business, ill, on leave, or present without voting - the published record does not distinguish these and gives no reason. Votes taken by show of hands or by secret ballot are not recorded by name and are absent here.
How they voted on final texts
Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.
With and against the group
On the 479 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Gabriel Mato also voted. Groups are not bound to vote together: a Member's mandate is personal and exercised freely, so neither figure is a measure of performance.
Final texts where Gabriel Mato differed from the EPP majority
| Date | Text | Their vote | EPP majority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2026 | A10-0187/2026 – Lukas Mandl, Pierfrancesco Maran – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | For |
| 17 June 2026 | A10-0166/2026 – Riho Terras – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Against | For |
| 16 June 2026 | A10-0147/2026 – Lukas Mandl – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | For |
| 29 April 2026 | A10-0098/2026 – Danuše Nerudová – Commission proposal | Abstained | For |
| 29 April 2026 | A10-0042/2026 – Anna Strolenberg – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | For |
| 28 April 2026 | A9-0147/2022 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposal | Against | For |
| 12 February 2026 | A10-0010/2026 – Lina Gálvez – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | For |
| 12 February 2026 | A10-0256/2025 – Johan Danielsson – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Against | For |
| 26 November 2025 | B10-0503/2025 – Motion for a resolution | For | Against |
| 13 November 2025 | A10-0223/2025 – Ondřej Knotek – Commission proposal | Against | For |
8 further instances are not listed. All roll-call votes.
Unlinked but matchable
28 counterpart entrys in Gabriel Mato's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:
- “CDC” - likely CAISSE DES DEPOTS (2 counterpart entrys)
- “FEDIOL” - likely The EU Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry (2 counterpart entrys)
- “KAS” - likely Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (2 counterpart entrys)
Matching is automated and can be wrong - see how matching works. Linking the register entry is the fix, and it is the MEP office's to make.