The chairmen of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the People First Party (PFP) agreed to meet again tomorrow to discuss pan-blue cooperation amid discussions that the next premier may be a pan-blue figure.
A second meeting between the KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (
Ma yesterday confirmed his scheduled meeting with Soong, and said he will invite Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (
Wang, meanwhile, said yesterday that he will have a separate meeting with Soong on Saturday morning.
Ma said that he "will explain the KMT's stance on the formation of the Cabinet in detail to Chairman Soong."
"If we are going to have a party-to-party talk with the government, there will be three parties on our side. The KMT will work together with the PFP and the New Party," Ma said.
Soong said he will meet with Ma to discuss current political issues and future developments in Taiwan, including the three links and cross-strait relations.
"I have no interest in talking about negotiations between the opposition parties and the government, or any possibility of meeting with the president during my meeting with Wang," he said yesterday after participating in the inauguration ceremony for the Lienjiang County commissioner in Matsu.
In the previous Ma-Soong meeting on Dec. 12, the two pan-blue camp leaders pledged to speed up cooperation between the two parties and push for the opening of the three links -- direct trade, postal and transportation links across the Taiwan Strait.
The two decided to meet again after President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) consulted with Wang about the possibility of inviting a blue-camp figure to form his Cabinet.
The premiership issue also created some friction between Ma and Wang after Ma disclosed a phone conversation with Wang on Sunday, and said that the president intended to select Wang as the next premier.
Wang -- after denying ever being asked to head the Cabinet or having any communication problems with Ma -- yesterday said he was the one to blame for the incident.
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