A KMT plan to split votes by birth month in a Taipei council race has blown up into an open feud with the rival TPP, in a sign of how sour blue-white relations have gotten ahead of the year-end local elections.

• The KMT's Taipei branch is telling voters in the Zhongzheng-Wanhua district to back one of four party candidates depending on which month they were born.
• Supporters of the smaller TPP flooded the post demanding that Chung Hsiao-ping be dropped from the list and their own candidate backed instead.
• Chung is a target because he was the one who first reported the Core Pacific land case that ensnared former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je.
• Onlookers mocked the TPP camp for begging votes off a rival party's own allocation scheme, and some questioned whether parties should be steering votes at all.

Outlook: Expect more friction between the KMT and TPP as the year-end vote nears, with any cooperation between them looking harder to arrange.