Chen’s popularity among his party followers, whose fervency often bordered on fundamentalism, changed him from a person with deep democratic instincts into a textbook case of a man who regards power and its prerogatives as being his by right.
La popularité de Chen auprès de ses alliés politiques, dont la ferveur confinait parfois au fondamentalisme, a transformé un personnage aux profonds instincts démocratiques en cas d'école qui considère le pouvoir et ses prérogatives comme lui revenant de droit.