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Kristian Vigenin, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Bulgaria S&D

Kristian Vigenin

MEP for Bulgaria · Socialists & Democrats · Bulgarian Socialist Party · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Kristian Vigenin (S&D, Bulgaria) has declared 78 lobby meetings this term - rank 279 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That sits close to the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 72 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.

56% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - close to the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

78
declared meetings
current term
78
records since 2019
full dataset
56%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
279/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
72/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Kristian Vigenin, this term
78
Parliament average
85
S&D average
113

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: 17 in Oct 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 17 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 8 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 8 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 2 declared meetingsMay 2025: 6 declared meetingsJune 2025: 5 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 9 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 3 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 5 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 6 declared meetingsApril 2026: 2 declared meetingsMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 2025: 66.7% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 17 declared in October 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Kristian Vigenin meets most

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

Health & pharma (14), Technology & digital (9), Energy (6)

Meetings by committee topic

Environment, Climate and Food Safety (31), Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (16), Public Health (11), Foreign Affairs (4), DCAS (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
9 Apr 2026Corporate Europe Observatory MemberNGT
8 Apr 2026EPODINMemberBiotech Act
18 Mar 2026ALLAIShadow rapporteurDigital AI omnibus
16 Mar 2026Standing Committee of European Doctors Shadow rapporteurDigital omnibus AI
10 Mar 2026European Tech Alliance Shadow rapporteurDigital omnibus AI
10 Mar 2026American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union Shadow rapporteurDogital omnibus AI
5 Mar 2026Fresenius SE & Co.KGaA MemberBiotech Act
5 Mar 2026DOT Europe Shadow rapporteurDigital omnibus AI
26 Feb 2026AI CHAMBER; Google ; Microsoft Corporation Shadow rapporteurDigital omnibus AI
24 Feb 2026European Patients' Forum (EPF) MemberEU4Health
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DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
11 Feb 2026Ambassador MoroccoMemberBilateral relations EU-Morocco
10 Feb 2026Mistral AI ; EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ; The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA Shadow rapporteurDigital omnibus AI
9 Feb 2026China mission representativesMemberBilateral relations EU-China
24 Sep 2025Lubrizol MemberFuture of the European automotive sector
24 Sep 2025Redcare Pharmacy N.V. MemberEU health policy developments
9 Sep 2025Ambassador IsraelMemberExchange of views
18 Jul 2025Bulgarian Association of Manufacturers and Importers of Homeopathic Medicines; Artificial Intelligence Council to the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry shop assistantMemberOngoing legislation
16 Jul 2025Alber & Geiger MemberEurope’s medical-device supply chain
16 Jul 2025Fresenius Global Union Alliance MemberOngoing legislation
14 Jul 2025Ambassador Ireland; Ambassador GermanyMemberExchange of views
10 Jul 2025Movement ‘Yuksalish’MemberEUVP Meeting - Exchange of views
4 Jul 2025Alzheimer BulgariaMemberExchange of views
3 Jul 2025Johnson & JohnsonMemberOngoing Legislation
3 Jul 2025EFPIAMemberInnovative medicines access across Europe
2 Jul 2025Ecma InternationalMemberEU Tobacco Control Framework
26 Jun 2025Ambassador UzbekistanMemberExchange of views
25 Jun 2025Hitachi Europe Ltd.MemberEurope’s industrial competitiveness
24 Jun 2025Novartis BulgariaMemberExchange of views
17 Jun 2025Teneo BrusselsMemberOmnibus proposal on the EU’s sustainability
2 Jun 2025EDRiMemberGDPR omnibus

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Kristian Vigenin 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.

87%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
458
final texts voted on
of 537
95%
voted with the S&D majority
on 456 final texts
24
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Kristian Vigenin537 final votes
73%8%15%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 456 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Kristian Vigenin 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.

Voted with the S&D majority43295%
Voted differently245%

Final texts where Kristian Vigenin differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
8 July 2026A10-0198/2026 – Borja Giménez Larraz – Draft Council decisionAbstainedFor
8 July 2026A10-0181/2026 – Javi López, Borja Giménez Larraz – Proposal for a Council decisionAbstainedFor
8 July 2026A10-0182/2026 – Javi López, Borja Giménez Larraz – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
26 March 2026A10-0069/2026 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposalAgainstFor
26 March 2026A10-0070/2026 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
11 March 2026A10-0016/2026 – Petras Auštrevičius – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
11 February 2026A10-0005/2026 – Michał Szczerba – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
22 January 2026RC-B10-0070/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
16 December 2025A10-0230/2025 – Hana Jalloul Muro – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
26 November 2025B10-0506/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

14 further instances are not listed. All roll-call votes.

Unlinked but matchable

14 counterpart entrys in Kristian Vigenin's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:

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.