MEP Martin Sonneborn has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014. Apart from (confused) „one-minute speeches on issues of political importance“ and occasional comments on the situation of the Armenians, to whom Sonneborn feels a connection for family reasons, his membership of the Parliament has been characterized by inactivity. He claims to be a satirical politician. However, he occasionally boasts that his voting behavior has sometimes been the deciding factor in plenary votes. He told the Rheinische Post newspaper in an interview: „It’s not that I would vote against something sensible.“