Incoming DPP secretary-general Chang Chun-hsiung (
Urging the opposition parties to accept the invitation, Chang said ruling and opposition leaders should meet to seek a consensus on several national issues.
For example, Chang said, the DPP, when it was in the opposition, took part in the National Development Conference in 1996 and agreed on many aspects of constitutional reform.
Last year's Economic Development Advisory Conference was another case in which the ruling and opposition parties coordinated smoothly, Chang said.
However, the KMT has already expressed its suspicions about DPP attempts at reconciliation.
On Thursday, KMT spokesman Wu Ching-ji (
Wu said that Chen, with a smile on his face, expressed his with to improve the ruling party's interaction with the opposition parties while allowing Presidential Office Secretary-General Chen Shih-meng (
Sharp-tongued DPP members such as Chen Shih-ming were to blame for the bad relations between the ruling and opposition camps, Wu said.
Wu was referring to a speech Chen Shih-meng made to a group of diplomats on Thursday in which he said both the "alliance for national stabilization" and the upcoming political summit must adopt a position against "one China" and "one country, two systems."
He also attacked the opposition parties for acting irrationally and turning against their government.
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