"That was just the Pachang incident, " says Chin Chin-sheng, deputy secretary-general of the People First Party (PFP), which was founded by rival presidential candidate James Soong Chu-yu after his election defeat.
When he assumed power upon the death of President Chiang Ching-kuo, he immediately turned to Chiang's former personal secretary, James Soong Chu-yu, to seek an alliance to purge the party of the old-guard mainland faction.