At eight o'clock that evening, Lin Yang-kang, president of the Judicial Yuan, swore in Vice President Lee as the seventh president of the Republic of China.
基於國家不可一日無元首，副總統李登輝先生旋即在當天晚上八時，由司法院長林洋港主持宣誓大典，繼任中華民國第七任總統。