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Some polls have Lien Chan trailing both Soong and opposition Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian.
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Take Lien Chan's four-day stay in Singapore, which was billed as a private break.
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It would not be very happy with a victory for Mr Lee's vice-president, Lien Chan.
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Vice President - and election loser - Lien Chan took over as acting chairman, vowing to implement extensive reforms.
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The winner was Lien Chan, a former vice-president of Taiwan, much liked by the Chinese government for his conciliatory approach.
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Mr Lee will be stepping down, but the candidate who is likely to be picked to replace him, Lien Chan, the current vice-president, is not very popular.
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In 2005 the then-KMT chairman, Lien Chan, saw Mr Hu when the party was in opposition at that point, the highest-level contact between the two parties since 1949.
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Nor was Vice President Lien Chan's image helped when he stopped off in an aboriginal village, where he answered a call of nature but ignored locals demanding reconstruction loans.
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This may have disappointed the party's honorary chairman, Lien Chan, who is reportedly interested in a third run at the presidency, and the speaker in the legislature, Wang Jin-pyng, who has already shown his ambition.
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