On 31 August 2014, the tenth session of the Standing Committee in the twelfth National People's Congress set limits for the 2016 Legislative Council election and 2017 Chief Executive election. While notionally allowing for universal suffrage, the decision imposes the standard that "the Chief Executive shall be a person who loves the country and loves Hong Kong," and stipulates "the method for selecting the Chief Executive by universal suffrage must provide corresponding institutional safeguards for this purpose". The decision states that for the 2017 Chief Executive election, a nominating committee, mirroring the present 1200-member Election Committee system nominated by local tycoons, business factions and Beijing-loyalists, be formed to nominate two to three candidates, each of whom must receive the support of more than half of the members of the nominating committee. After popular election of one of the nominated candidates, the Chief Executive-elect "will have to be appointed by the Central People's Government." The process of forming the 2016 Legislative Council would be unchanged, but following the new process for the election of the Chief Executive, a new system to elect the Legislative Council via universal suffrage would be developed with the approval of Beijing.[33]
While Li Fei, a deputy secretary general of the Committee, said that the procedure would protect the broad stability of Hong Kong now and in the future, pro-democracy advocates viewed the decision as a betrayal of the principle of "one person, one vote," in that candidates deemed unsuitable by the Beijing authorities would have been pre-emptively screened out by the mechanism. The Standing Committee decision is set to be the basis for electoral reform crafted by the Legislative Council. The Democratic Party legislators promised to veto the proposals for both elections as being inherently undemocratic. Also in response to the NPCSC decision, Occupy Central announced that it would organise civil disobedience protests.[34] Simultaneously, student groups staged a coordinated class boycott and organised public rallies and street assemblies
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