Under continuous attack by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) said the summit between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the KMT shows that the KMT is ""harboring malicious intentions"" to sidestep Taiwan's elected government. A few weeks ago, Chen's approval ratings plunged to an unprecedented low of 18 percent. According to one poll, he had to rely on KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) goodwill gesture when he decided to meet with Chen to give that number a boost.
