It could be argued that a prolonged de facto situation of being under the effective control – including law-making power - of the annexing State as a result of annexation would result in effectively denying the inhabitants of that territory a meaningful right to vote and to stand for elections and thus place an obligation on the annexing State to organise elections to its own national parliament. In the Commission’s view, such an obligation, assuming that it exists, would only arise a very significant time after the annexation.