 On 19 February, only four days after the nomination period opened the "Asian Wall Street Journal" first reported Tung's "de facto" victory, as more than 695 Election Committee members had nominated him for a second term, which made it mathematically impossible for anyone else to nominated as the threshold of required for nomination was 100 members.At the end of the nomination period, Tung garnered 712 nominations from the Election Committee and thus was the only validly nominated candidate with the boycott of the pro-democracy camp.The pro-democracy camp argued that the electoral process was deliberately designed to obstruct any challenge to Tung.