Presenting himself and his Party as champions of democracy, Chen sought to create the impression among Taiwan’s voters that their freedom would perish in the hands of the Kuomintang (KMT) or any party other than his own. But in fact, it was the late President Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who instituted the unprecedented democratic reforms that paved the way for the eventual electoral triumph of Chen’s formerly banned DPP.
通过将自己及其党派自封为民主的拥护者，陈水扁试图在台湾选民中留下一种印象，那就是选民的自由将会在国民党及其他党派手中化为乌有。但事实上正是蒋介石委员长的儿子，已故前总统蒋经国推动了一场空前的民主改革，最终为陈水扁及其遭到查禁的民进党最终获得选举胜利铺平了道路。