As Taiwan's Legislative Yuan voted on draft legislation concerning unmanned vehicles, Taiwan People's Party chairman Huang Kuo-chang criticised the Kuomintang caucus's approach of earmarking the budget first, calling it a warning sign for industrial planning aimed at promoting domestically produced drones.

• The KMT caucus's version would earmark a fixed sum of NT$240 billion over six years.
• Huang Kuo-chang said that budgeting before there is a plan risks becoming spending for spending's sake.
• The TPP argues that a development strategy and plan should be drawn up first and the budget discussed afterwards, with the goal of nurturing a domestic unmanned vehicle industry.
• With local elections approaching at the end of the year, the TPP has nominated former Hsinchu City deputy mayor Chiu Chen-yuan to run for mayor of Zhubei, facing off against Li Chen-hsiu, who was expelled from the party.
• The state of election coordination between the TPP and the KMT will be explained at a press conference.

Outlook: After the vote on the draft act, the tussle between the KMT and the TPP over the size of the budget and over coordination in the local elections will continue.