At the time this debate was raging, the political atmosphere looked larg ely unfavorable for overseas Chinese to get the right to vote. Little did anyone expect that at the last meeting of the KMT's constitutionalre form committee--with committee members from central and southern Taiwan rushing off early to catch planes home--overseas Chinese members would push through an amendment giving overseas Chinese the right to vote in the presidential election.
當時，整個政治氣氛對僑胞選舉權的入憲極為不利，沒想到國民黨修憲小組最後一次會議，竟在中南部代表忙著離席趕飛機的情況下，由僑選國代強力爭取並入總統直選條文。加上當時李總統到南非訪問，情況才有了決定性變化。