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Constitució Espanyola

Section 108


 * The Government is jointly accountable before the Congress for its conduct of political business.

Section 109


 * The Houses and their Committees may, through their respective Speaker, request any kind of information and help they may need from the Government and Government Departments and from any authorities of the State and Self-governing Communities.

ArtículoSection [sic] 110


 * 1. The Houses and their Committees may summon members of the Government.


 * 2. Members of the Government are entitled to attend meetings of the Houses and their Committees and to be heard in them and may request that officials from their Departments are allowed to report to them.

Section 111


 * 1. The Government and each of its members are subject to interpellations and questions put to them in the Houses. The Standing Orders shall set aside a minimum weekly time for this type of debate.


 * 2. Any interpellation may give rise to a motion in which the House states its position.

Section 112


 * The President of the Government, after deliberation by the Council of Ministers, may ask the Congress for a vote of confidence in favour of his or her programme or of a general policy statement. Confidence shall be deemed to have been obtained when a single majority of the Members of Congress vote in favour.

Section 113


 * 1. The Congress may require political responsibility from the Government by adopting a motion of censure by overall majority of its Members.


 * 2. The motion of censure must be proposed by at least one tenth of the Members of Congress and shall include a candidate for the office of the Presidency of the Government.


 * 3. The motion of censure may not be voted until five days after it has been submitted. During the first two days of this period, alternative motions may be submitted.


 * 4. If the motion of censure is not adopted by the Congress, its signatories may not submit another during the same period of sessions.

Section 114


 * 1. If the Congress withholds its confidence from the Government, the latter shall submit its resignation to the King, whereafter the President of the Government shall be nominated in accordance with the provisions of section 99.


 * 2. If the Congress adopts a motion of censure, the Government shall submit its resignation to the King, and the candidate proposed in the motion of censure shall be deemed to have the confidence of the House for the purposes provided in section 99. The King shall appoint him or her President of the Government.

Section 115


 * 1. The President of the Government, after deliberation by the Council of Ministers, and under his or her sole responsibility, may propose the dissolution of the Congress, the Senate or the Cortes Generales, which shall be proclaimed by the King. The decree of dissolution shall set a date for the elections.


 * 2. La proposta de dissolució no podrà presentar se quan hi hagi en tràmit una moció de censura.The proposal for dissolution may not be submitted while a motion of censure is pending. [sic]

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