 During the 2000–2008 DPP presidency, a law was proposed by the DPP in the Legislative Yuan to recover illegally acquired party assets and return them to the government.However, due to the DPP's lack of control of the legislative chamber at the time, it never materialised.The KMT also acknowledged that part of its assets were acquired through extra-legal means and thus promised to "retro-endow" them to the government.