voting right

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Noun1.voting right - the right to votevoting right - the right to vote; especially the right of a common shareholder to vote in person or by proxy on the affairs of a company
right - an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"
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voting right

n (of shareholder) → diritto di voto
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ISLAMABAD -- Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Wednesday informed the National Assembly that the government has principally decided to give voting right to overseas Pakistanis.
Currently, the voting right of a single individual or entity is limited to 10 per cent, irrespective of their shareholding.
In a perfect world with neither agency nor information costs, only cash flows matter, and the value of a stock voting right must therefore be zero.
The only voting right given to the preferred shareholders was the right to vote for directors.
ENPNewswire-August 28, 2019--Lectra-Monthly declaration of the total number of shares and voting rights composing the company's capital (at July 31 th , 2019)
UPM-Kymmene Corporation (UPM) (HEL:UPM), a Finnish forest industry company, reported on Friday that on 22 March 2019, it received an announcement according to which BlackRock Inc's indirect holding of UPM shares and voting rights has gone above the threshold of 5%, as on 21 March 2019.
Genmab A/S (CPH:GEN), an international biotechnology company, reported on Thursday that it has been informed by BlackRock Inc, that on 11 October 2018, BlackRock has decreased its total ownership (indirectly owned shares and financial instruments) in Genmab A/S to below 5% of the share capital and voting rights in Genmab A/S.
In accordance with Belgian transparency legislation[1], Galapagos notes that its total share capital currently amounts to EURO$277,679,082.33, the total number of securities conferring voting rights is 51,337,763, which is also the total number of voting rights, and all securities conferring voting rights and all voting rights are of the same category.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday it had revised guidelines on how the NPS should exercise its voting rights in businesses where it holds a stake.
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