With a hundred days left until Taiwan's year-end local elections, cracks in the blue-white alliance have surfaced — bad news for the Taiwan People's Party's candidates for the Taipei City Council.

• Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an is heading to Chiayi to campaign for a TPP candidate, but declines to help the white camp's candidates in Taipei, causing resentment.
• Some TPP candidates complain that Chiang Wan-an only attends joint rallies, as though handing out "charity."
• Ko Wen-je pins the blame on the opposition: the DPP has fielded Puma Shen for the Taipei mayoral race and he is too weak, so Chiang Wan-an is under no pressure and has no need to court allies.
• Ko Wen-je said the blue-white relationship should be called "inter-party cooperation" — cooperate where cooperation is possible, compete where competition is due — and that the system and the culture have to be built step by step.
• Huang Kuo-chang played down the friction, saying Chiang Wan-an has already sent word that he will pay a visit to discuss cooperation, and that the TPP will fight as a bloc in Taipei.

Outlook: the blue and white camps are largely at peace at the mayoral level, but the contest for seats at the city council and township mayor level will only intensify.