Then, with the first elections for the provincial governor at the end of 1994 and the first presidential elections in 1996, the problem of overlapping authority once again came to the fore. Chi Chun-chen, director of the civil affairs department at the Ministry of the Interior, says frankly that the elimination of the provincial government became necessary to prevent a "Yeltsin effect."
然而到了八十三年年底「省長」民選，八十五年總統民選之後，中央與台灣省政府行政轄區重複的問題更加凸顯，內政部民政司司長紀俊臣坦承，為預防引起「葉爾辛」效應（蘇聯瓦解時，當時最重要聯邦俄羅斯省長葉爾辛倒戈，因而引起蘇聯的全面瓦解），省「虛級化」成為不得不走的方向。