Parliament adopted its objection to the Commission's authorisation of genetically modified soybean MON 87705 by 466 votes to 175 , with 16 abstentions. The resolution was carried by S&D, the Greens/EFA, The Left, the ECR, PfE, the ESN and NI, together with a divided Renew; the EPP was the main group voting against, and Renew split roughly evenly. As a resolution objecting to a Commission implementing act, the text has no direct legal force of its own, but it is Parliament's formal political position calling on the Commission not to grant the authorisation and to reconsider its approach to placing genetically modified crops on the EU market. Such objections are recurring and are intended to press the Commission to change course, even though the final decision rests with the executive. The vote revealed a cross-spectrum coalition rather than a clean left-right line. The Greens/EFA, The Left and the bulk of S&D backed the objection alongside the ECR, PfE, the ESN and NI, while the EPP largely opposed it and Renew was almost evenly divided, with 37 members for and 33 against.
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