"In the future, the alliance will be consulted before vital policies are made, and on the nomination of the premier and Cabinet members," the president said.
He said he was still considering the modus operandi and rights and obligations of the alliance and that one option was to draft common guidelines that all alliance members would be asked to sign.
PFP spokesman Hsieh Kung-ping (
He said that the president had therefore put forward a model outside the existing constitutional mechanism to neutralize and absorb his opponents.
"In his 18 months in office, the president has come up with quite a few examples of `cross-party cooperation,' but only ended up with the opposition parties' increasing distrust of the DPP government," Hsieh said.
"The president is trying to accumulate more power, but the opposition camp will also strengthen its integration and solidarity," he said.
"The likely scenario will be that members of the alliance will still bargain [for their interests] on a case-by-case basis, and the political situation will not necessarily be stable."
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