Huang Yao-ming, the director of the Fourth Office of the Taipei city branch of the KMT, explained that because elections in the past stressed geographic relations, the influence of local factions ordinarily was strong.
台北市黨部第四組總幹事黃耀明解釋，由於過去選舉較重視地緣關係，地方派系影響力大，經常是一呼百諾。