Parliaments everywhere almost always make legislative decisions by majority rule. In theory at least, the decision making procedures in place can nevertheless give minorities the upper hand. Agenda manipulation and insincere (or strategic) voting are means by witch minorities may outmaneuver the majority. In this paper I focus on insincere voting. Most of the parliaments of European countries use the successive procedure to reach decisions. I demonstrate, by using data from one national assembly, that instances of insincere or strategic voting are very rare. The finding does not indicate that politicians necessarily behave in a non-sophisticated manner. It only means that strategic maneuvers have to take place at earlier stages of the voting process, for example in designing the agenda.
