Parliament backed the Commission's proposal for temporary support and advance payments to help farmers cope with rising fertiliser prices linked to the Middle East crisis, adopting it 576 for / 62 against / 15 abstentions. The EPP, S&D, Renew, ECR, ESN and PfE lined up behind the text almost unanimously; the Greens/EFA and The Left were the only groups where opposition and abstentions clustered. The result was a broad cross-group endorsement rather than a contested one. The single amendment considered beforehand was rejected by a wide margin of 261 votes, with the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and The Left voting against and ECR, ESN and PfE voting for it, leaving the main proposal to carry the day unchanged. As a motion for resolution, the text carries no direct legal effect on its own, but it records Parliament's formal political position and is intended to signal support for the Commission's emergency measures for the agricultural sector.
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