In regard to the "Yeltsin effect," former-Governor James Soong argued that in the current political environment it would hardly be likely that the ROC president and Taiwan provincial governor would come from different political parties.
以「葉爾辛」效應來說，已卸任的台灣省長宋楚瑜就表示，以目前政局來看，未來要出現省長與總統分屬不同政黨的情形，並不大可能。