DPP Secretary General Wu Nai-jen (吳乃仁) predicted yesterday 120 lawmakers would join the president's "cross-party alliance for national stabilization" and form a stable majority in the Legislative Yuan by Dec. 10.
"Even if the DPP fails to become the biggest party after the election on Dec. 1, the DPP can cooperate with the TSU and some KMT lawmakers, who have been regarded as pro-localization, to organize the president's alliance," Wu said yesterday.
DPP Chairman Frank Hsieh (
Chen yesterday stressed that it would not be necessary for those lawmakers willing to sign on to the alliance to renounce their party memberships. "We will not ask them to join the DPP, so the KMT does not have to worry about being split," Chen said at a DPP rally last night.
A presidential office aide told reporters yesterday that a decision on whether to draw up a concrete proposal for the alliance had not yet been made, but that it was clear the alliance would require some guidelines.
The aide said Chen is upbeat on his chances of successfully forming an alliance because he believes that the KMT and the People First Party (PFP) would encounter three major roadblocks which would prevent their cooperation.
"Who would they elect as [party] chairman if the KMT merged with the PFP? Who would be their next presidential candidate -- Lien Chan (
Hsieh yesterday said that if the country's founding father Sun Yat-sen (
"During the past year and a half, those three major opposition parties have devoted themselves to four goals -- cutting the government's budget, blocking the passing of bills, opposing President A-bian and restraining the Cabinet," Hsieh said. "The founding father, if he were still alive, would surely advocate the importance of solidarity and suggest that the KMT join the president's cross-party alliance."
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