With the Taipei mayoral race heating up, the DPP has turned the halls of the legislature into a campaign stage for Shen Po-yang — a positive signal for the ruling party's morale, and a source of pressure for Chiang Wan-an's camp.

• On the day of the general interpellation session opening the Legislative Yuan's new sitting, DPP lawmakers collectively donned black "Taipei on a Roll" T-shirts and sang Shen Po-yang's campaign song together.
• Shen Po-yang has drawn steady crowds at street canvassing and rallies in recent months, a phenomenon dubbed the "Yang Current," and the green camp's Taipei prospects, previously written off, have clearly warmed up.
• The Taiwan People's Party hit back, revealing a mobilisation quota sheet for the opening ceremony of his campaign headquarters calling for more than 5,000 people to be mobilised, and questioning whether the popularity is an "artificially generated wave"; Ko Wen-je drew an analogy with the "Han wave" of years past, suggesting that momentum does not necessarily translate into votes.
• Chiang Wan-an is meanwhile beset by two issues: students at several schools vomiting after lunch, with samples sent for testing, and a controversy over sugarcane given by a temple that his aides left behind at the scene.

Outlook: With the 2026 nine-in-one local elections entering the final stretch, the Taipei battleground will continue in the short term to be a tug-of-war between "how real the Yang Current is" and Chiang Wan-an's handling of municipal crises.