It was facilitated by the circumstance, that Sulla never lost sight of this as his ultimate aim.

Although the Valerian law gave him absolute power and gave to each of his ordinances the force of law, he had nevertheless availed himself of this extraordinary prerogative only in the case of measures, which were of transient importance, and to take part in which would simply have uselessly compromised the senate and burgesses, especially in the case of the proscriptions.
Sulla Resigns the Regency Ordinarily he had himself observed those regulations, which he prescribed for the future.

That the people were consulted, we read in the law as to the quaestors which is still in part extant; and the same is attested of other laws, e.g.the sumptuary law and those regarding the confiscation of domains.

In like manner the senate was previously consulted in the more important administrative acts, such as in the sending forth and recall of the African army and in the conferring of the charters of towns.

In the same spirit Sulla caused consuls to be elected even for 673, through which at least the odious custom of dating officially by the regency was avoided; nevertheless the power still lay exclusively with the regent, and the election was directed so as to fall on secondary personages.
But in the following year (674) Sulla revived the ordinary constitution in full efficiency, and administered the state as consul in concert with his comrade in arms Quintus Metellus, retaining the regency, but allowing it for the time to lie dormant.