Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang and Taiwan People's Party have put their cooperation on display in Keelung, welcome news for supporters hoping to see opposition forces united.

• Lee Wen-yao, the TPP's nominee for Keelung city councillor, has put up a campaign billboard featuring him together with Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen.
• Locally, this has been read as a sign that the "blue-white alliance" has not collapsed, and that the two parties are still campaigning together in Keelung and Taichung.
• The earlier breakdown of blue-white cooperation in the Zhubei mayoral race had at one point left supporters worried about the nine-in-one election.
• Lee Wen-yao's wife, Chien Yi-chun, and Lu Shiow-yen are both Keelung natives and both began their careers as journalists; after Lu was elected mayor of Taichung, she hired Chien as an adviser to the city government.

Outlook: Lu Shiow-yen is seen as the figure most likely to unite the opposition, and the blue-white cooperation model will continue to be tested in the run-up to the nine-in-one elections.