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Section 99: 3. If the Congress, by vote of the overall majority of its members, grants to said candidate its confidence, the King shall appoint him or her President. If overall majority is not obtained, the same proposal shall be submitted for a fresh vote forty-eight hours after the previous vote, and confidence shall be deemed to have been secured if granted by single majority.

Does "single majority" mean plurality?

Section 134 4. If the Budget Bill is not passed before the first day of the corresponding financial year, the Budget of the previous financial year shall be automatically extended until the new one is approved.

When "extending" the previous yearly budget, is the already spent money in the previous year subtracted from the allowable amount in the budget, or is it not, thus equivalent to a renewal?

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single majority seems to be a (mis?)translation from the Spanish "mayoría simple".

Si el Congreso de los Diputados, por el voto de la mayoría absoluta de sus miembros, otorgare su confianza a dicho candidato, el Rey le nombrará Presidente. De no alcanzarse dicha mayoría, se someterá la misma propuesta a nueva votación cuarenta y ocho horas después de la anterior, y la confianza se entenderá otorgada si obtuviere la mayoría simple.

Looking that up on wikipedia it seems that mayoría simple has the same meaning as the english "simple majority", which is "plurality".

From context this makes sense as well: if the nominee for President does not achieve an overall majority, the same nominee can be submitted again after 48 hours, and on the second vote a plurality is sufficient.

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Partial answer

When "extending" the previous yearly budget, is the already spent money in the previous year subtracted from the allowable amount in the budget, or is it not, thus equivalent to a renewal?

This means that each agency or line item receives the new appropriation in the same amount that it did in the previous year, pro-rated for the time period in which a budget is not enacted, as if a new budget was passed to that effect.

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