At the same time, however, Chen likened the transfer of power between different political parties to an insect's metamorphosis. He acknowledged that the ruling and opposition parties had not yet made a completely successful switch to their new roles, with the result that the birth of a fully fledged democracy had been a painful one.
但「政黨輪替的過程也像換殼的蛻變，」他承認，一年來朝野政黨的轉型還沒有完全成功，導致民主蛻變的過程歷經新生的陣痛。