Taiwan's opposition KMT is betting that young voters will decide November's local elections, and it wants a coordinated campaign with the smaller TPP to win them — a challenge to the ruling DPP's long grip on the youth vote.

• Taiwan votes on November 28 in its "nine-in-one" local elections, filling over 11,000 local offices, with 600,000 first-time voters.
• KMT lawmaker Lee Yen-hsiu counts 1.5 million young voters across the last two local elections and calls them the prize every party must fight for.
• Young voters have drifted from the DPP since the TPP was founded in 2019, breaking the DPP's near-monopoly on that group.
• The DPP is also blamed for problems young people care most about: low pay, housing costs, jobs, and the falling birth rate.
• Lee argues the DPP's anti-China "national doom" messaging is losing its pull on the young, and that the "Bluebird" street protests turned many of them off.

Outlook: Lee wants the KMT and TPP to split the work — one on media and messaging, the other on ground organizing — and warns that cash handouts alone will not win young voters, who want real policy and local results.