In response to such calls, at an emergency meeting of the KMT Central Standing Committee a reform committee was set up to accelerate internal party reforms, and party chairman Lee Teng-hui, secretary-general Huang Kun-hui and deputy secretary-general Huang Cheng-hsiung announced their resignations.
為回應選後要求負責的聲浪，國民黨在臨時中常會中決議成立「國民黨改造委員會」，加速完成黨內改造，主席李登輝與正副秘書長黃昆輝、黃正雄並決定提前辭職，主席職務由連戰暫代。