The practical coalition cabinet was formed as the Progressive Party (in the Meiji Period) which was the Constitutional Progressive Party (the Showai Cabinet (Sho was defined as Masayoshi MATSUKATA while Wai was Shigenobu OKUMA)) in the Second Matsukata Cabinet, and the Liberal Party attacked them.
逆に第2次松方内閣では立憲改進党の後身である進歩党_(明治)との事実上の連立体制（松隈内閣）が形成されてこれを自由党が攻撃するという構図も形成される。