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The purpose of this paper has been to analyze the parliamentary oversight in the Spanish emergency law. The first task has been to define the parliamentary oversight. Section I has dealt with it. The second task has been to delimit from a theoretical perspective the extraordinary parliamentary oversight (by and in) exercised by Congress in the Spanish Emergency Law. Section II has dealt with this. The third task has been to evaluate the extraordinary oversight exercised in practice by Congress in the two states of alarm decreed throughout the entire spanish territory to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Section III has dealt with this. The paper ends with some brief final notes (Section IV). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]