Yu described the three months since the legislature voted down a KMT-initiated recall vote as the party's "most difficult days."
He described the anti-Chen campaign as "political strife" and "fighting over national identification" rather than a "civil movement," as was described by Chen Chin-jun.
Meanwhile, KMT officials yesterday insisted that the party had not decided to pursue the no-confidence motion initiated by KMT Legislator Chu Chun-hsiao (朱俊曉).
Asked yesterday about the proposal, Wang Jin-pyng said: "It's not the party's policy yet."
"A motion to topple the Cabinet was proposed by legislators of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union long ago. Now, even though some KMT legislators have come up with the motion, we don't know yet whether it would become the party's policy," Wang said.
Wang told reporters that he and KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (
"If the president decided to disband the legislature after the legislature passed a vote of no-confidence, we would become a country without a legislature," Wang said, referring to the lack of a legislative redistricting plan.
According to the latest round of constitutional amendments more than a year ago, a new system must be adopted for the next legislative election, whenever it is held, employing new districts. However, a re-districting plan has not been approved.
Under the new system, the number of legislative seats will be slashed from 225 to 113 and a "single member, two vote" method -- with one vote cast for a candidate and one for a party -- will replace the current districts.
Wang said that he and Ma believed that the president would dissolve the legislature if his premier was ousted through a no-confidence vote, which would necessitate a new election in the legislature.
Ma yesterday restated his stance on the matter, saying that the party would only decide what to do after reaching consensus within the party.
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