
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%.
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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: 8 in Oct 2024.
Busiest month: 8 declared in October 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.
Who Sebastião Bugalho meets most
| Declared counterpart | Meetings |
|---|---|
| TotalEnergies SE | 2 |
| Apple Inc. | 2 |
| CIP - Confederação Empresarial de Portugal | 1 |
| Google Ireland Limited and its affiliates | 1 |
| NOS | 1 |
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
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2026 | Representative of Taiwan in the EU | Member | EU-Taiwan relations |
| 12 May 2026 | L'Oeuvre d'Orient | Rapporteur | Meeting with a Lebanese delegation from L'Oeuvre d'Orient |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Representation of Taiwan in the EU | Member | EU-Taiwan relations |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas | Member | As ordens no panorama interinstitucional português |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Human rights defenders venezuela | Member | Democratic transition in Venezuela |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Apple Inc. ↗ | Member | DMA |
| 4 Feb 2026 | ESNA - Europe Startup Nations Alliance, Associação | Member | Startups |
| 4 Feb 2026 | Google ↗ | Member | Omnibus |
| 17 Dec 2025 | Apple Inc. ↗ | Member | IMCO Priorities for 2026 |
| 19 Nov 2025 | European Union of Private Hospitals ↗ | Member | Presentation of FactBook - Shaping Europe’s Health |
Show 20 more meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Sep 2025 | Tabaqueira | Member | Fiscalidade dos produtos de tabaco |
| 21 May 2025 | Missão do Tibete UE | Member | Situation in Tibet |
| 19 May 2025 | Knauf Insulation ↗ | Member | Future of housing |
| 22 Apr 2025 | Caritas Europa ↗ | Member | Human rights situation in the world |
| 6 Feb 2025 | Dragos Tudorache | Member | Technology and Defence |
| 4 Feb 2025 | Representatives of the DEM Party | Member | EU-Turkey relations |
| 4 Feb 2025 | Eyyup Doru | Member | The political situation in Turkey |
| 31 Jan 2025 | ANSOL - Associação Nacional para o Software Livre ↗ | Member | Free Software |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Marta García - International Airlines Group | Member | Views on the future of aviation |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Ghazi Ben Ahmed | Member | Situation in Tunisia |
| 22 Jan 2025 | TotalEnergies SE ↗ | Member | Human Rights situation in Mozambique |
| 16 Jan 2025 | Inês Nolasco - Vodafone | Member | IMCO priorities |
| 11 Dec 2024 | Moadh Gannouchi; Takouoi Kheriji; Ridha Driss | Member | Briefing on the health situation of Rached Ghannouchi, elected Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament |
| 5 Dec 2024 | TotalEnergies SE ↗ | Member | Human Rights situation in Mozambique |
| 3 Dec 2024 | Louis Bout; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung ↗ | Member | Situation in Australia, New Zealand, and Korea |
| 3 Dec 2024 | Lama Nazeeh; Anton Salman, Mayor of Bethlehem | Member | Challenges faced by Christian communities in Bethlehem and across Palestine |
| 21 Nov 2024 | Members of the CSW | Member | Meeting with a Human Rights Organization |
| 14 Nov 2024 | APRe - Associação de Aposentados, Reformados e Pensionistas | Member | Priorities for the mandate |
| 16 Oct 2024 | ACTION EUROPE ↗ | Member | Introduction of Action Europe |
| 15 Oct 2024 | NOS ↗ | Member | Priorities 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.
How they voted on final texts
Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.
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.
Final texts where Sebastião Bugalho differed from the EPP majority
| Date | Text | Their vote | EPP majority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2026 | B10-0344/2026 – Motion for a resolution | For | Against |
| 21 January 2026 | A10-0248/2025 – Jaroslav Bžoch – Draft Council decision | Abstained | For |
| 17 June 2025 | A10-0101/2025 – Charles Goerens – Motion for a resolution (text as a whole) | Abstained | Against |
| 18 September 2024 | B10-0021/2024 - Proposition de résolution | Abstained | Against |
| 18 September 2024 | B10-0020/2024 - Proposition de résolution | Abstained | Against |
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:
- “ESNA - Europe Startup Nations Alliance, Associação” - likely ESNA - Europe Startup Nations Alliance, Associação (1 counterpart entry)
- “L'Oeuvre d'Orient” - likely OEUVRE D'ORIENT (1 counterpart entry)
- “Ordem dos Médicos Dentistas” - likely Ordem dos Médicos (1 counterpart entry)
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.