The KMT will split again and Lien Chan (
"During the past decade, I have precisely forecast the KMT's three splits, and now I also believe the party under Lien's leadership will absolutely face its fourth separation," Chen said.
In recent days, Chen has invited reporters to his office several times to talk about his vision of Taiwan's political landscape after Saturday's polls.
Chen has repeatedly pushed his proposal for a "cross-party alliance for national stabilization," and has said that Lien is the source of the nation's political chaos.
Yesterday, Chen said that several KMT heavyweights who are financial experts are willing to cooperate with his administration.
He also said that Lien was facing internal opposition from KMT members fed up with his leadership, and suggested that the three major opposition parties could join forces to support Taipei City Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (
The president also intimated that New Party leader Hsieh Chi-ta (
"Lien should understand the dire situation he faces after the election. First, Lien must be forced to shoulder the responsibility, because the KMT will lose 30 percent of its seats in the legislature," Chen said.
"Second, a politician, who leads a party the name of which has only two characters, has tried to mobilize those people who expect Ma to replace Lien," the president said, referring to Hsieh. "Lien should be alert to the dangers."
In addition, Chen said that cooperation between his administration and KMT financial experts resulted from the August meeting of the Economic Development Advisory Conference.
"The success of the conference was due to the assistance of those KMT heavyweights, who expressed their willingness to cooperate with the government but asked me to keep it a secret from Lien," Chen said.
"They just wanted to help me, but said if Lien found out about it they would be in trouble."
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