The Taiwan People's Party's euthanasia referendum failed to pass in a Legislative Yuan vote after the entire Kuomintang caucus abstained, highlighting the rift between the pan-blue and pan-white camps ahead of the year-end elections, though both sides said cooperation remains the trend.

• Among the opposition parties' four referendum proposals, "restarting nuclear power" passed thanks to blue-white consensus, while the more contentious "euthanasia" and "flogging" proposals met different fates.
• The euthanasia referendum put forward by the TPP failed to pass because all KMT legislators declined to vote.
• Ko Wen-je said he did not mind the outcome, but stressed "don't stir up confrontation even when cooperation is possible," reiterating that the blue-white relationship is one of cooperation, not merger.
• TPP Chairman Huang Kuo-chang pointed out that this vote highlighted serious differences in the blue and white camps' positions on major policies such as vote transfer and euthanasia.
• In the end, the three proposals—"dedicated use of traffic fines," "flogging," and "abolishing the nuclear-free homeland"—will be tied to the year-end nine-in-one elections for voting, at an estimated cost of about NT$1.4 billion.

Outlook: Blue-white cooperation is still seen by both sides as the trend, but the referendum disagreements have cast a shadow over cooperation in the year-end local elections, with the ability to coordinate candidates set to be a key test.