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Member of the European Parliament · Portugal EPP

Lídia Pereira

MEP for Portugal · European People's Party · Partido Social Democrata · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Lídia Pereira (EPP, Portugal) has declared 6 lobby meetings this term - rank 595 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the lighter declaration records in the Parliament - against an average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 151 of 185 within European People's Party.

86% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - above the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

6
declared meetings
current term
6
records since 2019
full dataset
86%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
595/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
151/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Lídia Pereira, this term
6
Parliament average
85
EPP average
94

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: 1 declared meeting in Sep 2026, 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 4 in Jun 2026.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 0 declared meetingsJune 2025: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 0 declared meetingsApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 1 declared meetingJune 2026: 4 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 1 declared meetingnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 2026: 100% 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: 4 declared in June 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Lídia Pereira 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

Finance (2), Business federations & chambers (1), Public affairs & consultancy (1)

Meetings by committee topic

Environment, Climate and Food Safety (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
9 Sep 2026EUPPORTUNITY (QB, Lda.) MemberEU ETS
24 Jun 2026Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its various subsidiaries ; EssilorLuxottica MemberEssilorLuxottica-Meta
18 Jun 2026BlackRock MemberFinancial Literay
17 Jun 2026Deutsche Börse AG MemberFinancial Literay
3 Jun 2026FEV Europe GmbH MemberCircular Economy Act
13 May 2026953933297-85MemberETS system

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Lídia Pereira 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.

89%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
484
final texts voted on
of 537
99%
voted with the EPP majority
on 480 final texts
4
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Lídia Pereira537 final votes
80%9%10%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 480 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Lídia Pereira 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 EPP majority47699%
Voted differently41%

Final texts where Lídia Pereira differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0344/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
9 July 2025B10-0318/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
6 May 2025A10–0068/2025 – Ondřej Knotek – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
2 April 2025A10-0036/2025 – Željana Zovko – Draft Council decisionAbstainedFor

Unlinked but matchable

1 counterpart entry in Lídia Pereira's declarations appears 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.