The KMT party-state is dead: Lee - TW

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By Chang Yun-ping
STAFF REPORTER , IN TAICHUNG
Sunday, May 09, 2004,Page 1

With the re-election of President Chen Shui-bian (???), the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) party-state edifice had collapsed, allowing the shadow cast upon Taiwan by the Chinese civil war to finally lift, former president Lee Teng-hui (???) said yesterday.

"The cancelation of the Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion (??????????) in 1991 signified that Taiwan no longer treated the People's Republic of China as a rebellious entity," Lee said. "But Taiwan didn't walk out of the shadow of the civil war until the March 20 election, when the KMT's party-state came to an end."

Lee was speaking at a seminar organized by the Taiwan Advocates think tank at Chunghsing University. Around 1,500 people packed the school's auditorium to hear the last of three seminars attended by Lee discussing the ramifications of the presidential election on the country's legal system and democracy as a whole.

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