Two major flashpoints in Taiwan's constitutional order — the Premier's refusal to countersign bills passed by the Legislative Yuan, and the legal status of cross-strait relations — have been identified as issues arising from the same constitutional logic, putting pressure on both the Blue and Green camps.

• After taking office, Premier Cho Jung-tai refused to countersign eight bills, including the Act Governing the Allocation of Government Revenues and Expenditures and the Act on Handling Ill-gotten Party Assets, with opposition parties criticising the move as a distortion of the countersignature power.
• Su Yeong-chin, former Vice President of the Judicial Yuan, pointed out that if opposition parties do not accept the Premier's refusal to countersign, it becomes difficult for them to simultaneously speak naturally of a binary opposition between "China and Taiwan," since both are governed by the same constitution.
• The Additional Articles of the Constitution stipulate that, prior to national unification, the territory is divided into the "free area" and the "mainland area" — effectively acknowledging that the country is in a state of division.
• Political parties that endanger or seek to divide the Republic of China are to be dissolved, a provision regarded as a core clause of the constitution.
• The theoretical basis of three decades of constitutional reform has never been clearly articulated, and this is the root of today's confusion — neither those in power nor the opposition have got it straight.

Outlook: The countersignature dispute is unlikely to be resolved in the short term, and the contest over the power to interpret the constitution could become the main battleground in the next round of confrontation between the governing and opposition camps.