Pan-blue camp agrees to full recount

If so, the court will only have to witness and oversee the process of the recount.

"To `witness' and `oversee' such a process is our job, so there will not be any extra fees. Then, all of the financial problems will be solved," Wu said.

In addition to the arguments over the issues of how the recount shall be processed and who will pay the legal fees, DPP lawyers have also rebutted the arguments of the KMT-PFP alliance's lawyers as to why the pan-blues filed such a suit.

According to one of the pan-blues' lawyers, Hanson Chiang (姜志俊), in addition to alleged vote-rigging, the assassination attempt on Chen and Lu on March 19 seriously affected the pan-blue camp's campaign, since the "national security mechanism" was launched and all campaign activities on that night were canceled.

"In addition to the alleged vote-rigging, the launch of the so-called `national security mechanism' and the cancelation of all campaign activities affected many voters' -- mostly soldiers' and police officers' -- legal rights to participate in the election, since they had to stay on duty to conduct strict security measures. That hurt us a lot," Chiang said.

However, Koo said that these arguments should not be regarded as valid by the court because the pan-blue camp has not provided any evidence to support their allegations.

"All of the complaints they have made are about how the CEC performed its work," Koo said. "These other arguments are not relevant, are they?"

In addition to both parties' lawyers, yesterday's hearing was also attended by nearly 100 reporters and 50 observers. Wu did not announce a date for the second hearing of the case.