When President Lee Teng-hui declared, "I intend to bring about a peaceful transfer of power during my lifetime," Chen Shui-bian insisted that Lee was implying that different political parties must alternate in power, and that it was time for the DPP to take the reigns.
當李登輝總統宣示「生前政權和平轉移」時，陳水扁一口咬定李總統是暗示將進行「政黨輪替」，由民進黨執政。