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Member of the European Parliament · Portugal EPP

Sebastião Bugalho

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

As of 14 September 2026, Sebastião Bugalho (EPP, Portugal) has declared 43 lobby meetings this term - rank 395 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 103 of 185 within European People's Party.

46% 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%.

43
declared meetings
current term
43
records since 2019
full dataset
46%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
395/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
103/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Sebastião Bugalho, this term
43
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: 0 declared meetings in Sep 2026. Peak: 8 in Oct 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 7 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 8 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 3 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 2 declared meetingsJune 2025: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 1 declared meetingOctober 2025: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 1 declared meetingDecember 2025: 1 declared meetingJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 2 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 3 declared meetingsApril 2026: 1 declared meetingMay 2026: 1 declared meetingJune 2026: 1 declared meetingJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 2025: 0% 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: 8 declared in October 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Sebastião Bugalho 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

Technology & digital (6), Human rights & humanitarian (3), Agriculture & food (2)

Meetings by committee topic

Foreign Affairs (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
30 Jun 2026Representative of Taiwan in the EUMemberEU-Taiwan relations
12 May 2026L'Oeuvre d'OrientRapporteurMeeting with a Lebanese delegation from L'Oeuvre d'Orient
14 Apr 2026Representation of Taiwan in the EUMemberEU-Taiwan relations
25 Mar 2026Ordem dos Médicos DentistasMemberAs ordens no panorama interinstitucional português
18 Mar 2026Human rights defenders venezuelaMemberDemocratic transition in Venezuela
12 Mar 2026Apple Inc. MemberDMA
4 Feb 2026ESNA - Europe Startup Nations Alliance, AssociaçãoMemberStartups
4 Feb 2026Google MemberOmnibus
17 Dec 2025Apple Inc. MemberIMCO Priorities for 2026
19 Nov 2025European Union of Private Hospitals MemberPresentation of FactBook - Shaping Europe’s Health
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
2 Sep 2025TabaqueiraMemberFiscalidade dos produtos de tabaco
21 May 2025Missão do Tibete UEMemberSituation in Tibet
19 May 2025Knauf Insulation MemberFuture of housing
22 Apr 2025Caritas Europa MemberHuman rights situation in the world
6 Feb 2025Dragos TudoracheMemberTechnology and Defence
4 Feb 2025Representatives of the DEM PartyMemberEU-Turkey relations
4 Feb 2025Eyyup DoruMemberThe political situation in Turkey
31 Jan 2025ANSOL - Associação Nacional para o Software Livre MemberFree Software
29 Jan 2025Marta García - International Airlines GroupMemberViews on the future of aviation
29 Jan 2025Ghazi Ben AhmedMemberSituation in Tunisia
22 Jan 2025TotalEnergies SE MemberHuman Rights situation in Mozambique
16 Jan 2025Inês Nolasco - VodafoneMemberIMCO priorities
11 Dec 2024Moadh Gannouchi; Takouoi Kheriji; Ridha DrissMemberBriefing on the health situation of Rached Ghannouchi, elected Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament
5 Dec 2024TotalEnergies SE MemberHuman Rights situation in Mozambique
3 Dec 2024Louis Bout; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung MemberSituation in Australia, New Zealand, and Korea
3 Dec 2024Lama Nazeeh; Anton Salman, Mayor of BethlehemMemberChallenges faced by Christian communities in Bethlehem and across Palestine
21 Nov 2024Members of the CSWMemberMeeting with a Human Rights Organization
14 Nov 2024APRe - Associação de Aposentados, Reformados e PensionistasMemberPriorities for the mandate
16 Oct 2024ACTION EUROPE MemberIntroduction of Action Europe
15 Oct 2024NOS MemberPriorities for the mandate

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Sebastião Bugalho 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
466
final texts voted on
of 537
99%
voted with the EPP majority
on 462 final texts
5
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Sebastião Bugalho537 final votes
77%8%13%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 462 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Sebastião Bugalho 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 majority45799%
Voted differently51%

Final texts where Sebastião Bugalho differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0344/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
21 January 2026A10-0248/2025 – Jaroslav Bžoch – Draft Council decisionAbstainedFor
17 June 2025A10-0101/2025 – Charles Goerens – Motion for a resolution (text as a whole)AbstainedAgainst
18 September 2024B10-0021/2024 - Proposition de résolutionAbstainedAgainst
18 September 2024B10-0020/2024 - Proposition de résolutionAbstainedAgainst

Unlinked but matchable

3 counterpart entrys in Sebastião Bugalho'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.