Candidate registration for Taiwan's nine-in-one local elections opened on August 31, with Kuomintang, Democratic Progressive Party and Taiwan People's Party nominees filing papers on the first day. Filing runs until September 4, with voting set for November 28, CNA reported. In Taichung, all six of the TPP's city council nominees completed registration on the opening day.
What happened in Tainan? 
Ko Wen-je, the TPP's founding chairman, accompanied the party's Tainan candidates to a joint registration and said its local "chicks" needed KMT mayoral candidate Hsieh Lung-chieh to campaign for them, CNA reported. Ko said the TPP holds only one incumbent council seat south of the Zhuoshui River, and that if the party cannot grow effectively in this year's election, Taiwan's politics will in future be reduced to "competing to be worse." On the collapse of KMT-TPP cooperation in the Zhubei mayoral race, he said it would not affect the whole country but was the tip of the iceberg. He also said the Central Election Commission and Mainland Affairs Council should clarify whether Li Zhen-xiu, a former TPP legislator originally from mainland China who has announced a Zhubei run, has the right to stand.
What happened in Taichung? TPP chair Huang Kuo-chang led the six nominees to register and said the goal was to form a caucus in the city council, CNA reported. Huang said he regretted the KMT's unilateral failure to keep its commitment in Zhubei and hoped the impact would stay within Hsinchu County. Eight DPP councilors from the party's Ing faction who are seeking re-election registered jointly, while eight KMT councilors also seeking re-election arrived dressed as workers from different trades.
Who else registered, and who is still to come? Several incumbents seeking re-election filed on the first day. In Lienchiang County, KMT magistrate Wang Chung-ming registered and, by the county election commission's count, was the only magistrate candidate to file there that day. In Nantou, DPP candidate Wen Shih-cheng registered and said he would use a physician's diagnostic approach to find what the county really needs; magistrate Hsu Shu-hua, seeking re-election, plans to register on September 2. Miaoli County logged 113 registrations for council, township and village posts but none yet for magistrate; KMT incumbent Chung Tung-chin and the DPP's candidate have both set dates to register.
Figures referenced: Ko Wen-je. — JudgeMarket.
