Both proposals were promptly dismissed by Presidential Office deputy secretary-general Chen Che-nan, who described them as efforts to counter the president's "government of all the people."
兩人說法立刻遭到總統府副秘書長陳哲男與民進黨立委譏諷，指出國民黨此說是為了對抗阿扁的「全民政府」，而不管聯合政府、還是雙首長制，國民黨如今輸了擂台，竟然還想向得勝者要求分獎金。