He's a very personable individual. He can be a diplomat, a mediator. He's not a hard-liner. They need someone to rally people together.

Absolutely not. The only way of leaving is by the slab. You're in the mob for life.

You never leave the mob. Sometimes you're wishing you'd never gotten into it, when there's a contract on your life or you're going to jail. But you never leave.

So the fact that they had a mock election and elected a hard-liner ought not come to any surprise to anybody because all the other people were told they couldn't run.

I did not like fascists when I fought them as a diplomat for 23 years and I don't like them now in my own country.

President Chen has made it clear that he wants the new cabinet to carry out his hard-liner stance on China. The new premier had his job cut out for him.