As Lee and Soong spoke, high party and government officials and local opinion were fully mobilizing to persuade Soong to stay on. There were petitions and supportive public opinion polls; provincial assemblymen hurried to Taipei to express their views to Soong. It was all very intense.
在李宋會面的同時，黨政高層和地方聲援省長留任的動作亦全面展開，基層連署、縣市展開民調支持留任，省議員也紛紛北上向宋楚瑜致意，情況十分熱烈。