While this development had would-be candidates in all parties scrambling to launch election campaigns, by late March the post-presidential-election situation, combined with pressure from public opinion, pushed the KMT to work with the DPP on means to phase out the National Assembly, despite the KMT's previous opposition to the body's complete dissolution in the name of preserving the constitutional structure.
另一方面，國大延任案無效，必須如期改選，朝野各黨有心參選人士也蠢蠢欲動，但原本堅持保存憲政體制、不贊同廢國大的國民黨，基於選舉後的政治情勢改觀，加上民意壓力，終於與民進黨達成國民大會虛級化的共識。