Infighting within the Kuomintang has come into the open. Ting Yu, a nominee for an at-large legislative seat who was expelled from the party, stormed a meeting of the Central Standing Committee to protest and opened fire on party chairwoman Cheng Li-wun — bad news for the blue camp's unity ahead of the elections.

• Ting Yu tried to force his way into KMT headquarters while the Central Standing Committee was in session, but was blocked at the door by security guards and stationed police.
• He produced two pens, one red and one blue, accusing Cheng Li-wun of helping the Chinese Communist Party undermine the Republic of China's constitutional order, and declared that at the end of the year he would fight the "Taiwan branch office of the CCP."
• He also named legislator Weng Hsiao-ling and Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an, criticising the city's governance failures over random stabbings, flooding and a rat infestation.
• Protesters outside shot back that he was a fake KMT member, telling him to "get lost to the DPP."
• The blue camp fought on multiple fronts the same day: Weng Hsiao-ling proposed cutting the president's state affairs fund, touching off a war of words over "cancelled orders" for Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes.

Outlook: The dispute within the blue camp over political direction and unification-versus-independence labels looks set to burn on through to the year-end local elections.