The Parliament adopted its resolution on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and the Kawel massacre by 510 votes to 1 , with 86 abstentions. The EPP, S&D, Renew, ECR, ESN and most of PfE voted in favour; the Greens/EFA (47 abstentions) and most of The Left (26 abstentions) abstained rather than oppose the text. As an own-initiative resolution the text has no direct legal effect, but it sets out Parliament's formal political position and is intended to press the Commission and EU diplomacy to raise the issue with Nigerian authorities and to send a public condemnation of the killings. Before the final vote, eight alternative amendments tabled by the ECR, PfE and ESN groups — reworking the opening paragraph, recital C, recital E and paragraph 7 — were each rejected, generally by margins of around 200 votes. On these, the ECR, ESN and PfE voted together in favour while the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and The Left voted against, so the compromise joint text prevailed unchanged. The pattern was consistent: a minority favouring the alternative wording could not overcome the majority backing the negotiated resolution, which then carried almost unanimously.
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