Resolution on the situation in Russia: the poisoning of Alexei Navalny

Reference RC-B9-0280/2020

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How the groups voted

GroupForAgainstAbstainedAbsentUnity

The Left39

4726270%

S&D146

13235694%

Greens/EFA68

The European Parliament adopted by 532 votes to 84, with 72 abstentions, a resolution on the situation in Russia: the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.The text adopted in plenary had been tabled as a joint resolution by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and ECR groups.Members strongly condemned the attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny, one of the main figures of the political opposition in Russia, using a nerve agent from the Novitchok group, a chemical weapon designed for the military structures and secret services in Russia, who are the only ones to have access to it.Parliament expressed its deepest concern about the repeated use of nerve agents against Russian citizens, recalling that the use of chemical weapons is in all circumstances a…