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Result of AGM
Result of AGM.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n \n28 June 2024\n \nSound Energy plc\n(\"Sound Energy\" or the \"Company\")\n \nResults of Annual General Meeting (\"AGM\")\n \nThe Directors of Sound Energy, the transition energy company, announces that the resolutions detailed below were put to shareholders at the AGM of the Company held earlier today by way of a poll.\n \nThe results of the poll were as follow:\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResolutions\n\n\nFor\n\n\n%\n\n\nAgainst\n\n\n%\n\n\nWithheld\n\n\n\n\n1\n\n\nTo receive the audited annual accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2023\n\n\n590,772,564\n\n\n99.96\n\n\n235,317\n\n\n0.04\n\n\n844,920\n\n\n\n\n2\n\n\nTo re-appoint Crowe UK LLP as the Auditor of the Company\n\n\n590,816,162\n\n\n99.86\n\n\n819,502\n\n\n0.14\n\n\n217,137\n\n\n\n\n3\n\n\nTo authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors\n\n\n584,003,177\n\n\n98.73\n\n\n7,529,606\n\n\n1.27\n\n\n320,018\n\n\n\n\n5\n\n\nTo re-appoint David Blewden as a Director of the Company\n\n\n562,408,009\n\n\n95.06\n\n\n29,202,211\n\n\n4.94\n\n\n242,581\n\n\n\n\n6\n\n\nTo give directors authority to allot equity securities\n\n\n561,910,056\n\n\n95.00\n\n\n29,595,608\n\n\n5.00\n\n\n347,137\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial Resolutions:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7\n\n\nTo give directors authority disapply re-emption rights\n\n\n296,413,406\n\n\n50.11\n\n\n295,142,258\n\n\n49.89\n\n\n297,137\n\n\n\n\n8\n\n\nTo give directors authority to make market purchases of own shares\n \n\n\n583,718,777\n\n\n98.68\n\n\n7,806,887\n\n\n1.32\n\n\n327,137\n\n\n\n\n \nA \"Vote withheld\" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted \"For\" or \"Against\" any resolution.\n \nResolution 4, an Ordinary Resolution to re-appoint Simon Ashby-Rudd as a Director of the Company in accordance with Article 131 of the Articles of Association, was withdrawn given Mr Ashby-Rudd's decision to step down from the Board as announced on 14 June 2024.\n \nResolution 7, a Special Resolution granting the directors authority to allot shares on a non-pre-emptive basis, and which required 75 per cent of the votes cast to be in favour in order to pass, has failed.\n \nGraham Lyon, Executive Chairman, commented:\n \n\"It is unfortunate that Resolution 7, to provid...