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Member of the European Parliament · Germany The Left

Robert Gabel

MEP for Germany · The Left · PARTEI MENSCH KLIMA TIERSCHUTZ · official EP profile

Joined 18 September 2026AGRI

As of 7 November 2026, Robert Gabel (The Left, Germany) has declared 2 lobby meetings this term - rank 645 of 720 MEPs by declared meetings, a place shared with 11 other MEPs.

Robert Gabel took the seat on 18 September 2026, so the term-wide average of 100 meetings per MEP and the ranks below cover a longer period than this record does; they are not a like-for-like comparison.

0% 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 52%.

2
declared meetings
current term
2
records since 2016
full dataset
0%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 52% EP‑wide
645/720
rank, all MEPs
tied with 11 others; joined 18 September 2026; not like‑for‑like
43/45
rank in The Left
joined 18 September 2026; not like‑for‑like

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Compared with the averages

Robert Gabel, this term
2
Parliament average
100
The Left average
70

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 November 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024. Robert Gabel took the seat on 18 September 2026; the months before that are shaded, not counted as months without meetings.

Current month, partial through 6 Nov 2026: 0 declared meetings in Nov 2026. Peak: 2 in Oct 2026.

not yet seated0%25%50%75%100%02July 2024: before taking the seatAugust 2024: before taking the seatSeptember 2024: before taking the seatOctober 2024: before taking the seatNovember 2024: before taking the seatDecember 2024: before taking the seatJanuary 2025: before taking the seatFebruary 2025: before taking the seatMarch 2025: before taking the seatApril 2025: before taking the seatMay 2025: before taking the seatJune 2025: before taking the seatJuly 2025: before taking the seatAugust 2025: before taking the seatSeptember 2025: before taking the seatOctober 2025: before taking the seatNovember 2025: before taking the seatDecember 2025: before taking the seatJanuary 2026: before taking the seatFebruary 2026: before taking the seatMarch 2026: before taking the seatApril 2026: before taking the seatMay 2026: before taking the seatJune 2026: before taking the seatJuly 2026: before taking the seatAugust 2026: before taking the seatSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2026: 2 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termtook seatMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkOctober 2026: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link202420252026not yet seated0%25%50%75%100%02July 2024: before taking the seatAugust 2024: before taking the seatSeptember 2024: before taking the seatOctober 2024: before taking the seatNovember 2024: before taking the seatDecember 2024: before taking the seatJanuary 2025: before taking the seatFebruary 2025: before taking the seatMarch 2025: before taking the seatApril 2025: before taking the seatMay 2025: before taking the seatJune 2025: before taking the seatJuly 2025: before taking the seatAugust 2025: before taking the seatSeptember 2025: before taking the seatOctober 2025: before taking the seatNovember 2025: before taking the seatDecember 2025: before taking the seatJanuary 2026: before taking the seatFebruary 2026: before taking the seatMarch 2026: before taking the seatApril 2026: before taking the seatMay 2026: before taking the seatJune 2026: before taking the seatJuly 2026: before taking the seatAugust 2026: before taking the seatSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2026: 2 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termtook seatMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkOctober 2026: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link202420252026not yet seated0%50%100%02took seat202420252026
declared meetings per month (left axis)all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)
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Declared meetings each month, and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link.
MonthMeetingsLinked
Jul 2024 -
Aug 2026
not yet seated
Sep 20260-
Oct 202620%
Nov 20260-

Busiest month: 2 declared in October 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Robert Gabel meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
Anima International1
Party of the European Left1

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

This list counts this term. Committee pages show each member's current-term total across all subjects, so their figures for this member can be higher.

Meetings by committee topic this term

Agriculture and Rural Development (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
19 Oct 2026Anima InternationalMemberUpcoming Animal Welfare Legislation
13 Oct 2026Party of the European LeftMemberCooperation and Election Reforms

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 484 roll-call votes while Robert Gabel held the seat, 37 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.

100%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 484 held while seated
37
final texts voted on
of 37
83%
voted with The Left majority
on 36 final texts
6
differed from The Left
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 37 final votes held while seated.

Robert Gabel37 final votes
65%19%16%
For 24Against 7Abstained 6No vote recorded 0

With and against the group

On the 36 final texts where more than half of The Left members casting a vote went one way, and Robert Gabel 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 Left majority3083%
Voted differently617%

Final texts where Robert Gabel differed from The Left majority

DateTextTheir voteThe Left majority
22 October 2026RC-B10-0476/2026 - Joint motion for a resolution (subject not given in the vote record) RC-B10-0476/2026 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAbstained
21 October 2026The Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 A10-0272/2026 · Nils Ušakovs and Michalis Hadjipantela · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedAgainst
20 October 2026Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget A10-0213/2026 · Ondřej Knotek · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedAgainst
20 October 2026Connecting Europe through high-speed rail A10-0262/2026 · Vicent Marzà Ibáñez · Motion for a resolutionForAbstained
8 October 2026Motion for a resolution on the need for an EU strategy to counter Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network B10-0424/2026 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
7 October 2026A European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign… A10-0237/2026 · Hilde Vautmans · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedAgainst