Parliament agreed by 331 votes to 304 , with 11 abstentions, to maintain the request for an urgent decision on a temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive that would let electronic communications providers continue voluntarily detecting online child sexual abuse. The motion was carried by the EPP, which was almost unanimous, together with a majority of S&D members and a portion of Renew, PfE and ECR; the Greens/EFA, The Left, ESN and NI opposed it outright, and Renew, PfE, ECR and part of S&D split. The 27 -vote margin makes this one of the tighter votes of the session, and it did not fall on a clean left-right line. The centre-right EPP delivered the bulk of the yes votes, but it needed the 80 S&D members who voted in favour to get across the line, since roughly a third of Renew and half of the represented PfE members went the other way. As a motion for resolution rather than a legislative text, this carries no direct legal effect of its own. It records Parliament's political will to treat the derogation as urgent and to keep the voluntary-detection regime available while the wider file is negotiated.
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