In mid-July, as the usually circumspect Legislative Yuan speaker Wang Jin-pyng pressed the case for a "coalition government," KMT chairman Lien Chan stated that his party, with its legislative majority, should be allowed to form the cabinet in order to break the deadlock between the executive and legislative branches.
七月中旬，除王金平一改平日謹言慎行的姿態不斷論及「聯合政府」，國民黨主席連戰也表示應由國會多數黨組閣，以打開行政、立法互動僵局。