Li Si-chuan, the Kuomintang's candidate for mayor of New Taipei, visited the legislative caucuses of both the KMT and the Taiwan People's Party at the Legislative Yuan. While the visits are good news for his campaign, his narrowing lead in the polls indicates that pressure is mounting.

• Li called separately on the TPP and KMT legislative caucuses, seeking support for legal amendments and municipal construction projects.
• TPP Chairman Huang Kuo-chang stated clearly that, under the blue-white party cooperation agreement, his party will give Li its full support.
• Li singled out laws he considers outdated, such as those governing urban renewal and mass rapid transit, and expressed hope that legislators would serve as his backing.
• The latest poll shows him leading Democratic Progressive Party candidate Su Chiao-hui by only 2%, a markedly narrowed gap.
• Facing scepticism over his remarks about "setting up no campaign headquarters and raising no funds," Li countered that those comments referred to the Kaohsiung by-election at the time and had been taken out of context.

Outlook: Li plans to travel through all 29 districts of New Taipei to shore up his support, and whether blue-white cooperation can be converted into actual votes will be the key question ahead.