National Lottery today, Thursday 12 November: result and winning numbers from the draw

To modify the taxation of National Lottery prizes, the usual route is to approve an ordinary law, processed in the Congress and the Senate. The path depends on who presents the reform and whether a specific law, the Budget Law, or, exceptionally, a royal decree-law is used.

1. Which regulation must be amended

It is advisable to separate the regulation of prizes from their taxation. The procedure described here corresponds to legal changes, especially fiscal ones: it should not be assumed that any adjustment regarding the organization of the draws or their prizes needs to go through the Cortes.

Changing essential elements of the tax, such as the applied percentage or the exempt limit, requires a regulation with the rank of law. In principle, an ordinary law suffices: the tax matter does not, by itself, require an organic law. The reform can be approved through a specific law or incorporated into a fiscal measures law.

The Budget Law has limits: it cannot create taxes and can only modify them when a substantive tax law has provided for it. This is reflected in STC 116/1994. Therefore, it is not a free path to change any aspect of the levy.

2. Who can promote the reform

• The Government, through a bill approved by the Council of Ministers and sent to Congress.
• The Congress, through a bill proposal presented by a parliamentary group or by a deputy with the signature of fourteen others.
• The Senate, through a bill proposal according to its procedure.
• The autonomous assemblies, which can send a proposal to Congress or request a project from the Government.

Popular legislative initiative is excluded in tax matters. Additionally, proposals and amendments that reduce budget revenues may require the Government's consent to be processed: a relevant aspect if raising the exemption or reducing the levy is considered.

3. How it is processed in Congress

The Congress Rules establish these main phases:

1. Publication and admission. The Board orders the publication of the bill and sends it to the competent committee. Proposals usually require consideration: the Plenary decides whether to start processing them. Those coming from the Senate do not repeat this procedure.
2. Amendments. The initial ordinary period is fifteen working days, extendable. Specific changes can be proposed. In bills, groups can also request its return to the Government or present an alternative text; these amendments are debated in the Plenary.
3. Subcommittee and committee. A subcommittee studies the text and amendments and drafts a report. Then, the committee debates the articles and approves an opinion.
4. Approval. The Plenary debates and votes when appropriate; it can also approve the committee with full legislative competence if the matter is delegable. The general rule for an ordinary law is a simple majority: more favorable votes than unfavorable.

4. Senate, final approval, and application

The Senate can approve the text without changes, introduce amendments, or veto it. If it proposes changes, Congress decides which to accept by simple majority. If it vetoes, Congress can override the veto by absolute majority or, after two months from its imposition, by simple majority.

After final approval come the sanction and promulgation by the King and publication in the BOE. The law sets its entry into force and may specify from which date the new limits or percentages apply.

There are special routes: urgency reduces deadlines and single reading simplifies debate. Exceptionally, a royal decree-law requires extraordinary and urgent necessity and subsequent parliamentary validation, respecting constitutional limits.

The functions of the president of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado must be distinguished from those that corresponded to the presidency of the former public business entity. The Statute approved by Royal Decree 2069/1999 is repealed, so its attributions cannot be presented as the current powers of the president of the current State Society Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE).

The consulted documentation clarifies this difference and some limits of their actions but does not provide the text of the current bylaws nor the delegation agreements. Therefore, it would not be rigorous to attribute a closed list of management, representation, or contracting powers as if accredited by current legislation.

1. What the former Statute established

Article 7 of Royal Decree 2069/1999 expressly attributed two functions to the president:

• "Exercise the high inspection of the entity's services and oversee the development of its activity."
• "Approval of the general activity plans of the public business entity."

Additionally, Article 8 provided that the president designate who would replace the general director in case of vacancy, absence, or illness when substitution had not been previously foreseen. In that model, the presidency corresponded to the Secretary of State for Finance and Budgets, while there was a differentiated General Directorate.

This separation matters: Article 8 attributed to the general director, not the president, the representation of the entity before natural and legal persons and the exercise of actions and appeals in defense of its interests. This historical distribution cannot be automatically transferred to the current society.

2. Why those functions do not correspond to the current regime

The repealing provision, section 2.13, of Law 13/2011, regulating gambling, expressly repealed Royal Decree 2069/1999. Consequently, citing only its Article 7 to explain the current powers of the presidency would provide an outdated answer.

To determine the concrete scope of current powers, one must differentiate the president's own attributions, those of the board of directors, and those exercisable by delegation or power of attorney. The consulted sources do not contain the current text allowing to specify that distribution, its economic limits, signing powers, or matters reserved for other bodies.

3. What gambling legislation allows to affirm

The first additional provision of Law 13/2011 identifies SELAE and ONCE as designated operators to market lottery games regulated by that law. This is an attribution to the company as an operator, not a list of personal powers of its president.

Likewise, the fourth transitional provision allows SELAE to continue marketing the modalities and games it had been conducting, according to the regime provided therein. This does not turn that business authorization into a presidential power to unilaterally modify the game rules.

There is also an express limit: for points of sale subject to administrative law, the fifth transitional provision attributes sanctioning power to the Director General of Gambling Regulation. This administrative power should not be confused with SELAE's commercial or contractual decisions.

In conclusion: the two functions of the former Article 7 are historical precedents, not the current answer. The exact list of current powers requires the bylaws and applicable delegations; with the texts consulted, that complete list is not available.

I do not have specific data nor direct access to National Lottery result databases that would allow me to verify exactly how many times the number 39430 has been awarded in draws over the last five years. I specialize in Spanish politics and institutions (rules, parliaments, parties, governments, public actors) and not in detailed gambling statistics, so I cannot provide you with a reliable numerical answer to that specific question.

That said, I can guide you on how you can locate that information yourself in a reasonably precise and verifiable way, as well as explain what types of data official sources usually publish and what practical limits you will find when searching for such a specific history of a particular number.

1. Where official National Lottery results are published

The results of each National Lottery draw are always disseminated through:

• The official website of the public lottery operator in Spain, where the list of prizes for each draw is published (draw number, date, number awarded the first prize, second, refunds, fractions, series, etc.).
• The Official State Gazette (BOE) in some special or extraordinary draws, where resolutions with draw conditions or, in certain cases, information related to significant prizes are inserted.
• Historical results usually offered both by the official website and some private websites specialized in gambling, lottery comparators, or press archives.

The most solid route is always the official lottery website or, when available, complementary documentation that may appear linked to provisions in the BOE. However, even with official sources, the usual presentation of results is aimed at showing, for each draw, the awarded numbers, not allowing reverse searches by a specific number (such as, in your case, 39430).

2. Practical strategy to check if 39430 has been awarded

To answer such a specific question as "how many times has 39430 been awarded in the last five years?", the most realistic approach is that you will have to combine several steps:

• Define the time period: "last five years" implies reviewing all draws held in that interval. The National Lottery has multiple draws per month (weekly and special), so the total volume of draws in five years is high.
• Locate a downloadable history: if the official website or some reliable source allows downloading in structured formats (CSV, Excel, databases) the list of all awarded numbers per draw, you could then filter by number 39430 with any spreadsheet or similar tool.
• If there is no mass download, you will have to check draw by draw. Some websites allow entering a number and checking if it has been awarded on a specific date or within a range. In that case, you should:
  • Enter the number 39430.
  • Set the date range covering the five years you are interested in.
  • Review if the tool returns one or several awarded appearances and, if so, note how many.
• Cross-check the information: if you find a website claiming that number has been awarded X times, it is advisable to cross-check with at least another source (another results website or press notes from the lottery entity itself) to avoid loading errors or incomplete databases.

3. Limits and precautions when interpreting the result

Even with a good history, there are several nuances you should consider when counting "how many times a number has been awarded":

• Type of prize: it is not the same to obtain the first prize as a refund, approximations, endings, or minor prizes. It is advisable to be clear whether you are interested in "any type of prize" or only the main prizes.
• Completeness of the database: some private histories may start on a certain date or lack certain draws. Make sure they actually cover the entire five-year period you are interested in.
• Consistency of the query: if you change sources halfway through the period (for example, a couple of years with one website and the rest with another), they may apply different criteria on what they consider "awarded" (only big prizes versus all prizes).

4. What I can do for you, within my specialty

Although I cannot determine the exact number of times 39430 has been awarded, I can help you, if interested, with:

• Explanations about the legal and regulatory framework of lotteries and gambling in Spain (rules that regulate them, State competencies, etc.).
• Information on how public revenues from lotteries are managed and their budgetary impact.
• Political and institutional context about parliamentary debates or legal reforms related to gambling.

If you reformulate the question towards any of these areas (legal, institutional, or political), I can provide you with a much more detailed and useful analysis.