The Democratic Progressive Party has taken the Legislative Yuan controversy over cutting and freezing the Presidential Office's State Affairs Fund straight into the nine-in-one election campaign at the end of the year — bad news for the blue camp's candidates.

• Legislators from the KMT and the TPP passed Weng Hsiao-ling's motion to cut and freeze the entire NT$30 million State Affairs Fund of the Presidential Office.
• The 15,000 boxes of Mid-Autumn Festival gifts that the Presidential Office had planned to purchase from 37 sheltered workshops and disability groups may now not be bought.
• The DPP has called on legislators running for mayor or county magistrate, such as Chiang Chi-chen and Ko Chih-en, to state whether they too intend to act as a "Weng Hsiao-ling."
• Chiang Chi-chen and Ko Chih-en were said to have left before the vote without stating a public position; the blue camp responded by stressing that it regularly shows concern for disadvantaged groups, and countered that the DPP has failed to press Taiwan Sugar Corporation over money it owes.
• Sheltered workshops in Taichung including Shih Fang, Li Da and Maria have already had orders cancelled, becoming the focus of the controversy.

Outlook: The green camp will repeatedly amplify this budget controversy, making it a main line of attack and defense for scrutinizing blue camp candidates in the year-end local elections.