The Taichung mayoral race has heated up over orders for Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes, with the blue and green camps blaming each other and institutions for people with disabilities and sheltered workshops caught in the middle as the victims.

• Opposition parties cut and froze the entire state affairs fund of the Presidential Office, leaving sheltered workshops and disability groups without the Mid-Autumn gift box orders they receive every year.
• Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen said the Presidential Office had "abandoned the orders" and stated that the city would use its own budget to "take over the orders."
• Ho Hsin-chun, the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate for Taichung mayor, criticised this as getting cause and effect backwards, saying it amounted to rubbing salt in the wounds of the affected institutions.
• Ho asked in return whether the city government would also "take over" the NT$470 billion drone budget that was cut.
• Legislator Johnny Chiang responded that the Legislative Yuan had dealt with the state affairs fund, not a dedicated budget for mooncakes made by people with disabilities, drawing criticism that he was treating the matter as none of his concern.

Outlook: Where these orders end up before the Mid-Autumn Festival remains a focal point of attack and defence in the Taichung mayoral race, and a concrete remedy for the disability institutions may not become clear in the short term.