President Lee Teng-hui criticized the so-called "extra-party" concept, describing it as a big step backward from democratic development and party politics. One DPP legislator went even further, accusing Soong of hiding behind a democratic guise to plot a dictatorship like that of Mao Zedong.
李登輝總統則對所謂的「超黨派」理念提出批判，認為是大開民主發展與政黨政治的倒車；民進黨立委更直批宋楚瑜是搞毛澤東的「民主專政」。