A local election standoff is heating up in Taiwan's Changhua County, and it looks bad for KMT unity as one of its own magistrates keeps dodging the party's candidate.

• Both major parties — the ruling DPP and the opposition KMT — will hold their traveling leadership meetings in Changhua on the same day, Aug 19.
• DPP chair and President Lai Ching-te and KMT chair Cheng Li-wen will both be in the county that day, the second time in five days they overlap there.
• Cheng is making her fourth trip south to campaign for KMT county magistrate hopeful Wei Ping-cheng.
• The KMT's own outgoing Changhua magistrate, Wang Hui-mei, has skipped all three of Cheng's earlier events, choosing instead to appear publicly with President Lai and even with the DPP's rival candidate.
• Wang has also snubbed events featuring her own nephew, a KMT council nominee, and did not answer calls asking about her plans.

Outlook: All eyes are on whether Wang skips a fourth time or finally backs the KMT candidate, a sign of how deep the party's local rifts run ahead of the year-end vote.