Legislative speaker Wang Jyng-ping (
The soon-to-be published book says that Su Chih-cheng (
The book entitled A Short Biography of Su Chih-cheng (
The book describes in great detail some of the "projects" suggested by Su and former minister of the interior Huang Chu-wen's (
"Many close friends of Lee expressed their disappointment with Lien's performance after the loss of power and urged Lee to do something to stop Lien from acting willfully," Chou said in the book.
"Lee gave Su the assignment of finding a way to pull Lien down" Chou writes, "and Su then wrote up Plan A for ousting Lien."
According to the book, Su suggested that the first step would be to promote Wang Jyng-ping to replace KMT first vice chairman Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), the KMT's Vice President candidate, at the party's National Delegations Congress last August. (The KMT has five vice party chairman)
"Many KMT leaders were prompted to criticize Siew as being too close to the DPP government to foment opposition to Siew and then to oust him," Chou says.
"After Wang becomes chief vice chairman," Chou explains in the book, "Wang will work with pro-Lee party members to force Lien to shoulder responsibility for the electoral defeat and to step down."
The book says that Su was extremely confident with the plan, stressing that Wang would have been be the best choice to lead the KMT in the role of "loyal opposition" -- in stark contrast to the constant boycotting of the new DPP government under Lien's continued leadership.
"The KMT would select proper policies to cooperate with the DPP," the book said, "then, it would have been reasonable for the two parties to organize a coalition government."
"I have discussed the strategy with Wang," Su says in the book, "and he [Wang] approved of my idea."
The book says that in the end, Lee failed to adopt Su's plan but accepted Huang Chu-wen's proposal -- called in the book Plan B -- to organize a new political party, the TSU.
"After evaluating the situation, Lee thought it a waste to sacrifice Siew as a pawn just to counter Lien, when he might be of better use later as an inter-party bridge," Chou writes.
"Lee did not wish to passively await the results of the legislative elections [last December]," the book said, "so Lee adopted Plan B to organize a new political party."
Responding to the sensational content of the book, neither Lien or Siew said yesterday that they had been informed about Su's plan and they refused to make further comments.
"I am concentrating on teaching for the time being and am not involved the politics anymore," Siew told reporters yesterday.
Wang, the key figure in the book, strongly denied he had ever discussed the plan with Su.
"Those stories are all untrue, so how can I make any comment," Wang told reporters yesterday afternoon, adding, "Su has already called me to apologize for involving me in the book."
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