People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong (
Soong, who has predicted three months of political tumult after Saturday's polls, said whoever takes the helm of the Cabinet will have a hard time steering the administration.
"I'm not interested in repeating the fate of former premier Tang Fei (唐飛)," the PFP chairman told reporters on Kinmen. "Whoever occupies the post can expect a tough ride in the legislature, as no single party can win majority control."
He noted that the KMT's Tang, though a former a four-star general, was under attack by all parties during his brief stint as premier last year.
The KMT refused to endorse his policy initiatives and the ruling DPP disagreed with him over the fate of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant.
Soong said he was pessimistic that the cross-party alliance for national stabilization would function smoothly if it ever comes into being.
He said that conflicting ideologies make a DPP-KMT coalition unlikely, if not impossible.
As for his own party, Soong said though the PFP and the DPP are not totally incompatible, they would not combine well.
"Like water and oil, the PFP cannot mix well with the DPP," said Soong, whose secret meetings with Chen last summer have raised speculation that he is eyeing the premiership.
He also said that the president has been overly partisan, which would add difficulty to cross-party cooperation after the election.
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