Correspondingly, because of the lack of a clear political direction and internal disputes among its leading proponents, the influence of the tangwai faction, which had been increasing in recent years, suffered its worst setback in thirty years; many of the movement's leaders were resoundingly defeated. '"
相對的，近年來蓬勃發展的在野黨外勢力，卻因缺乏明晰的政治主張，加上領導人物的內爭，遭到卅多年來最嚴重的挫敗，主流派領袖全部落選。』