On Sunday, an ally of the president, Hossein Marashi, a reformist leader, said that out of 3,000 reformist candidates who had registered nationwide, only 33 had been allowed to participate.
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His main reformist opponent, Mohammad Reza Aref — who served as first vice president from 2001 to 2005 under Mohammad Khatami, then the liberal reformist president — withdrew from the race on Monday.
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According to Mostafa Tajzadeh, an Iranian reformist politician, the Guardian Council has fixed it so that in 7 of the 290 seats, conservatives and hardliners will not face any opposition from reformist parties.
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They see his candidacy as signalling the government's reformist goals.
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Popular disillusionment has set in about the government's reformist zeal.
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The latest parliamentary contest, then, was a reformist victory of
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Unfortunately, his record has fallen short of the reformist rhetoric.
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Ironically, the leak comes at a time of reformist zeal.
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Of what use is reformist politics in such a context?
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But he wasn't about to forget his deep reformist sympathies.
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A chill descended almost immediately on the remaining reformist press.
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Ellison's reformist tendencies have, amid so much amity, quietly receded.
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Then, wearing red, you have a strong quasi-revolutionary, reformist movement.
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It also prevents reformist Sunni Saudis allying with their Shi'ite counterparts.
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This involved reformist Chinese scholars discreetly welcoming Mr Trump's pugnacious ways.
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The government of Joko Widodo, the reformist president, has joined in.
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The initial anger was directed at Hassan Rouhani, the reformist president.
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Hassan Rouhani, the country's reformist president, hopes to be re-elected.
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The process encourages pro-EU, reformist forces in sometimes unstable countries.
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She, too, was rewriting history, exaggerating her reformist credentials, he said.
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Yet the reformist movement has had many more wins than losses.
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He appointed reformist ministers and supported long-stalled anti- corruption legislation.
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Ex-President Khatami, the reformist figurehead who is banned from appearing in official media, posted a video message this week urging followers to vote for the reformist camp, which has chosen "Hope" as its campaign slogan.
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Reformist and moderate candidates have accused the Guardian Council of eliminating rivals.
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The two main reformist candidates from that vote remain under house arrest.
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Yet Deng and his reformist aides are being sidelined during this anniversary.
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Mr Macron's time as a credible reformist leader, it seemed, was up.
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Like many reformist movements within Hinduism, Lingayats bridle at the caste system.
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Few reformist candidates have been permitted to run in elections since then.
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Rouhani would emerge—not a reformist, but with reformists' blessing, and facing
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Another factor -- many reformist and centrist candidates have been prevented from running.
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Many popular reformist candidates have been disqualified from running in recent elections.
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His plain-speaking reformist stance is indicated in some of the documents.
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The upshot was a "List of Hope", that was reformist in parts.
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But hopes are fading that a big reformist push will ever materialise.
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A reformist, Massoud Pezeshkian, was also elected deputy head of the body.
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There are also signs reformist politicians are wielding more influence under Kim.
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If his reformist agenda is to be successful, he needs legislative support.
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The problem is that the country still needs a strong, reformist administration.
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New reformist faces are not just found in the two upstart parties.
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All of those arguments are persuasively made by reformist thinkers in Islam.
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Among the governors he praised as a fellow reformist was Mr. Duarte.
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For a while, the party was eclipsed by Mr. Renzi, a reformist.
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Reformist-backed allies like Mohammad Khatami were allowed to contest and win elections.
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"He was well-known for his reformist views", she said in the interview.
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Another said Macron would not deviate from his reformist agenda as a result.
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Argentines voted their reformist president out and protectionist, big-state Peronists back in.
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Meanwhile, the reformist image cultivated by Crown Prince (MBS) is also in jeopardy.
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Elizabeth Warren's reformist view of capitalism than to the democratic socialism of Rep.
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MAURICIO MACRI, Argentina's reformist president, has been in office for just four months.
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If Mr Valls waters down the draft, his reformist credentials will be damaged.
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Nixon's candidacy has demonstrated the impressive effect of reformist pressure on Mr. Cuomo.
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At Rutgers, he had been schooled in the reformist ideals of community policing.
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Rouhani and his reformist supporters call for an end to the resistance economy.
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Then moderate and reformist candidates made strong gains in last year's parliamentary elections.
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His unlikely reformist alliance could give Iraq's political culture the jolt it needs.
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This year, the council also banned 80 sitting reformist lawmakers from running again.
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And the tide has turned against reformist social democracy in Italy and elsewhere.
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A section of the élite was reformist, and then they met popular resistance.
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In the Socialists and Ciudadanos it has the elements of a future reformist coalition.
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Into their place have stepped leading presidential aspirants who are remarkably liberal and reformist.
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Great cartoon by Mehdi Azizi in Ghanoon daily after reformist gains in #IranElections2016 pic.twitter.
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In short, neither side of the industrial-financial, traditionalist-reformist debate has been satisfied.
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In 1972 a reformist coalition was denied victory in a presidential election by fraud.
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At least they can invest some of their reformist energies in their adoptive country.
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Rafsanjani. But this is the game in Iran: the reformist faction has, for some
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Mousavi and other reformist leaders of the protest would after not too long be
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Before the election, reformist Most put forward seven initial demands for supporting any cabinet.
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Thousands of moderate and reformist candidates have been barred from standing in the elections.
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Officials had promised at last to end "delay and vacillation", remarked a leading reformist.
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For this reason, among others, the reformist project ran up against the security establishment.
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"The president expects the reformist chief justice to abolish the practice," Mr. Hashemi said.
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A new party called Most emerged, which claimed to be non-ideological and reformist.
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Rouhani's victory was aided by his skillful embrace of anti-establishment and reformist rhetoric.
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Before the 1960s, the American left was largely reformist in its orientation to politics.
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There is, finally, Rorty's praise of the reformist preference for working within the system.
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Principlists argue that reformist policies will encourage foreign efforts to undermine the Islamic revolution.
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Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi largely spurned the reformist general who led before her.
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Ms. Nixon's candidacy has demonstrated the impressive effect of reformist pressure on Mr. Cuomo.
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In 1953, he was recruited by New Haven's newly elected, reformist mayor, Dick Lee.
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His one-time reformist zeal mutated into a fear of upsetting the status quo.
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Aref, a Stanford-educated former presidential candidate and minister, who served as vice-president to the former reformist President Mohammad Khatami, led the reformist list in the contest in Tehran, where more than 1,000 candidates are competing for just 30 seats in parliament.
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Aref, a Stanford-educated former presidential candidate and minister, who served as vice-president to the former reformist President Mohammad Khatami, leads the reformist list in Friday's contest in Tehran, where more than 1,000 candidates are competing for just 30 seats in parliament.
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Now, all seats in Tehran have gone to the reformist-moderate list, a significant gain.
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Hubert Humphrey ineffectually attempted to invoke and resuscitate his own legacy as a reformist crusader.
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As Mr Valls seeks to broaden his vote, he may sound a less reformist note.
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Some of the 15 elected in Tehran were in both conservative and reformist electoral lists.
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We ask why Malaysia's reformist coalition isn't doing much reforming of the country's illiberal laws.
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"He is not a great reformist," says Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós of Freemarket, a consultancy.
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That has been both cause and consequence of the collapse of the moderate reformist centre.
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A government defeated once by the street will suffer irrevocable damage to its reformist credentials.
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Mr Renzi, a reformist centre-leftist, has staked his political future on the referendum's success.
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The message appears to be getting through, with Rouhani's rallies attracting chants of reformist slogans.
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Macron will take office by May 14 and is expected to pursue a reformist agenda.
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Although the conservative Guardian Council disqualified many reformist candidates, the youth did not get discouraged.
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Still, the more reformist her opponent, the more chance she has to destabilise French politics.
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Some analysts have been too quick to dismiss the young tyro and his reformist plans.
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The first barometer of Ramaphosa's reformist credentials will be whether he trims a bloated cabinet.
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The reformist gains are all the more remarkable because the deck was stacked against them.
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Macri, from the center-right Republican Proposal, was elected in 2015 on a reformist agenda.
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If that's right, perhaps the time has finally come to abandon our reformist mission civilisatrice.
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" Nader Karimi Joni, an analyst close to the reformist movement of Mr. Rouhani, said: "Mr.
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Under Mr. Li's editorship, Apollo became one of the most influential reformist magazines in Taiwan.
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Among those who do vote, people who worry about the economy tend to vote reformist.
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Mr. Najafi, the first reformist to take on the post since 2005, seemed reined in.
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San Marco took center stage in 15th-century Florence when Savonarola started his reformist campaign.
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Still, in all three eras, the left responded to reformist chief executives in similar ways.
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Some accounted for the Saudi crown prince's reformist agenda sweeping through the historically conservative nation.
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Parvaneh Salahshouri, a reformist lawmaker representing Tehran, said lawmakers had been kept in the dark.
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In the fall of 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad replaced the reformist Mohammad Khatami as the president.
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After that night in July 2003, the conservatives thoroughly obstructed the reformist president, Mohammad Khatami.
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He first gained widespread attention in the early 2000s for his role in closing dozens of reformist newspapers while heading up the revolutionary court during the reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami, who was despised by Iranian conservative hardliners for trying to liberalize the Islamic Republic.
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Mortazavi first gained widespread attention in the early 2000s for his role in closing a number of reformist newspapers while heading the revolutionary court during the reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami, who was despised by conservative hardliners for trying to liberalize the Islamic Republic.
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In 1998 a newly appointed (and refreshingly reformist) prime minister, Zhu Rongji, suggested they might indeed.
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Reformist leaders were imprisoned, and the window of freedom in which they had operated was closed.
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" Protesters followed with the chant: "Darren Walker, we won't let you sabotage abolition with reformist camouflage.
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The conservative Guardian Council had restricted both races by disqualifying most reformist and many moderate candidates.
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Iran's moderate reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, was re-elected with a solid 57% of the vote.
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But a truly reformist president would not just meekly accept a needless change to the constitution.
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Overseeing a restructuring of Air France-KLM would cement Macron's reputation as a reformist and modernizer.
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Prior to taking office he gave no hint of wanting to reverse the alleged reformist trend.
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If Iranians see a tangible benefit to reformist policies, they could vote to preserve those policies.
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Sedighi was an active supporter of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in the 2009 presidential election.
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Strong support from Khamenei for a candidate may only mobilize moderate and reformist voters, it said.
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But he faces a struggle convincing some members of his party to back his reformist agenda.
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The combined list of moderates and their reformist allies won a majority in the next parliament.
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Whether it will get the reformist government it needs to sustain its progress is less clear.
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The reformist list won majorities in other cities including Isfahan, which hardliners had swept in 2012.
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Sadly, Arkansas' reformist first lady now appears to be the personification of America's petrified political establishment.
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The reformist protests — often referred to as the "Green Movement" — were ultimately crushed by the state.
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An Iranian reformist group led by ex-President Mohammad Khatami accused the US of encouraging violence.
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And in France, Le Pen's National Rally edged out French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist reformist coalition.
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It was clear that many felt validated by the re-election of the reformist Mr. Rouhani.
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The reformist protests — often referred to as the "Green Movement " — were ultimately crushed by the state.
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In the city of Mashhad, not a single reformist or centrist candidate is on the ballot.
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Several leading reformist politicians responded by calling for a boycott of the parliamentary election next month.
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It would also be a serious and lasting defeat for a reformist and internationalist social democracy.
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Beyond Europe, Luther's legacy shaped American ideals about liberty of conscience while animating a reformist impulse.
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During the election in 2016, reformist and centrist candidates like Gaam-e Dovvom faced multiple attacks.
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Reformist parties were closed down, and hundreds of activists, politicians and journalists were given long jail sentences.
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When thousands of reformist candidates were disqualified in January, Mr. Rouhani did not intervene on their behalf.
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Hardliners fear Iranian voters will now be more inclined to reward reformist and moderate candidates in Feb.
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Merkel has done all she could to kill the reformist drive of the French President Emmanuel Macron.
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But he shares some of its reformist agenda, and it would transform the opposition's chances of victory.
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The party is abandoning the reformist spirit and open-mindedness associated with its early years, she charges.
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Mr Lou is a protégé of Zhu Rongji, a reformist prime minister who stepped down in 2003.
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But reformist leaders said last week that almost all of their candidates for Parliament had been disqualified.
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Ethiopia under reformist new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has asked that the sanctions on Eritrea be dropped.
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He even tacitly supported the election of the reformist Republican Fiorello La Guardia as New York mayor.
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The reformist CFDT union, the largest by membership ahead, lifted its strike call after the government concessions.
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"It's obvious that he understands the problem," said Parnian Seyfe, 19, standing outside the reformist candidates' headquarters.
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Elites cannot simply rely upon a popular belief in the connections between reformist movements and foreign threats.
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Modi rode to power on a reformist platform, but it has been overshadowed by his nationalist pageantry.
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Perhaps more surprisingly, the history the rulers are highlighting is a pre-revolutionary era of reformist zeal.
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Mr. Khatami, a reformist, led the country from 1997 to 2005, winning office twice by overwhelming margins.
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"He will likely be a reformist in as far as the economy is concerned," Mr. Madhuku said.
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The left wants reformist change and the right wants to allow the market process to operate unencumbered.
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He sees the American left as split into two camps: the reformist left and the cultural left.
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What will decide the Democratic nomination is whether the party faithful prefers the reformist or the revolutionary.
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On the contrary: Even reformist politicians have chastised these protesters and suggested they are serving foreign masters.
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Even the reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi, an octogenarian who is confined under permanent house arrest, issued condolences.
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We've had these first steps in disqualifying prominent reformist figures in the country from running for election.
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Traditionally the reformist or moderate political camp has been the main user of social media in Iran.
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In Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, America has supported reformist politicians when they came under attack from oligarchs.
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A top reformist, Danylyuk was finance minister under Poroshenko but fell out with Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.
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Perhaps in races where notably reformist Republicans are running, willing to repudiate Trumpism, they should vote GOP.
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Mr. Jaleipour, the reformist advocate, said the compromises were part of reaching political adulthood in a hostile environment.
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The reformist-backed Hassan Rouhani won the presidency, beating a hard-liner who appeared to have Khamenei's blessing.
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The printing press, for example, allowed reformist teachings to spread, challenging the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.
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His political hero was Amir Kabir, a 19th-century reformist chief, of whom he wrote an appreciative biography.
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Indeed, there's no shortage of protest in France this spring, putting Mr. Macron's reformist agenda to the test.
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Will he champion the release from house arrest of the defeated reformist candidates in the election of 2009?
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This has been a surprise to many observers, given the reformist credentials of his late father, Xi Zhongxun.
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With presidential elections due in May, Hassan Rohani, the reformist incumbent, will be keen to address voters' concerns.
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They demanded the resignation of Hassan Rouhani, the reformist president, for failing to bring prosperity to most Iranians.
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India sees the project as a threat in its backyard and has been sympathetic to Sirisena's reformist rule.
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Center-right opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy told Le Monde newspaper he expected the government's reformist zeal to fizzle.
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Rouhani, meanwhile, is essentially running for re-election as an outsider, and is backed by Iran's reformist camp.
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Italians recently voted against electoral and constitutional reforms causing one-time reformist Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to resign.
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They cut deals with pragmatic conservatives, like parliament's speaker, Ali Larijani, whose deputy appeared on Tehran's reformist list.
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"Maybe our coalition with the moderates has been a mistake," one prominent reformist, Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, wrote on Twitter.
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How to protest Macron's reformist centrism while also defending the pillars of liberal democracy and a tolerant society?
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Pete Ricketts, a Republican, vetoed the bill, but reformist legislators promise a revised proposal in the next session.
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Rolling out a high-speed Internet network is a key plank of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's reformist agenda.
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Whether Macron agrees to play Hollande's reformist mascot until the end of his term remains an open question.
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Zelaya had offended sensibilities within the U.S. government and Honduran elite by espousing a reformist and populist agenda.
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A reformist political tradition, suspicion of party machines, and geographical isolation could all contribute to such a delay.
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But we recommended voting for him in the belief that he would follow through on his reformist platform.
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The reformist left dominates from 1900 until it is supplanted by the cultural left in the mid-1960s.
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Yet here was Mr. Rouhani, holding forth for nearly two hours in a frank appeal to reformist voters.
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President Rouhani is number two on the reformist candidate list for the Assembly of Experts, just after Rafsanjani.
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The election of President Emmanuel Macron in France has boosted that momentum with his reformist agenda for Europe.
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Pro-European lawmaker and activist Serhiy Leshchenko said Saakashvili's resignation illustrated an anti-reformist trend in the country.
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Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his reformist agenda are expected to be undermined if the "no" campaign prevails.
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In the past, aggressive secrecy has led to a reformist backlash, triggering leaks, hearings, and ultimately government change.
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But that is "a stupid argument by local conservatives," said Saeed Laylaz, an Iranian economist and prominent reformist.
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The demonstrators don't want support from anyone associated with the status quo, including Mr. Rouhani, the reformist president.
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Meanwhile, reformist Hillary Clinton supported the nuclear deal with Iran and has warned that Middle East dictatorships can't last.
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A 2016 report by Iran&aposs pro-reformist Arman newspaper described the IR-8 as 24 times more effective.
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"In the last year South Africa's reformist voices have been ascendant," says Goolam Ballim, an economist at Standard Bank.
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It is hard to see, though, how the president can emerge from this drama with his reformist momentum intact.
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"The IRGC will adopt a more aggressive and tougher approach in the coming months," the former reformist official said.
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Officials say he has recently shown some sympathy with the reformist camp, although he maintains his allegiance to Erdogan.
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Even the newly vibrant American socialist movement is composed almost exclusively of reformist social democrats rather than revolutionary socialists.
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"We don't know whether he is a real reformist," says Carlos Rosado de Carvalho of Expansão, a business newspaper.
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Like Jokowi, Mr Djarot is a reformist, who promised to fight corruption and bring transparency to the regional government.
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Up to a point, Mr Macron is indeed facing the most demanding, and symbolic, test of his reformist resolve.
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Ethiopia under reformist new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed already has asked that the U.N. sanctions on Eritrea be dropped.
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But that hold was broken in the next election in 2004, when reformist candidates were largely barred from running.
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The reformist candidates are overwhelmingly loyal to President Hassan Rouhani, although some are critical of some of his policies.
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Lord Ashdown is proposing a bottom-up movement that, while reformist, will risk seeming defensive of Britain's status quo.
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Another viewpoint In the north of Tehran, in bustling Tajrish Square, an affluent, reformist neighborhood, the mood was different.
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NASA's young, reformist administrator Jim BridenstineJames (Jim) Frederick BridenstineMaking space exploration cool again In-space refueling vs heavy lift?
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He has now contributed to that pressure himself by campaigning hard as a reformist, particularly in the final days.
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Although MbS clearly has reformist instincts, some of his actions show a reckless side that needs to be tempered.
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"He has campaigned as a reformist, promising to strengthen government institutions, fight corruption and stabilize the economy," Bryden said.
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It reportedly plans to execute three imprisoned reformist scholars — Salman al-Awda, Awad al-Qarni and Ali al-Omari.
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He told her that Saudi prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against Sheikh Salman al-Awda, a reformist cleric.
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A reformist, he made Vladimir Putin his deputy, and the men remained friends until Mr. Sobchak's death in 2000.
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"Young people are angry and frustrated, without a hope in the future," said Nader Karimi Juni, a reformist journalist.
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Reformist journalists and politicians appeared on television, in prison garb, confessing that they'd taken part in a seditious conspiracy.
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The reformist agenda is on its knees, experts said, and Rouhani has probably lost the confidence of the regime.
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The lawmakers, mostly members of reformist and centrist factions, account for roughly a third of the 210-member Parliament.
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Reformist prosecutors are also changing how they handle non-capital offenses, which make up the vast majority of prosecutions.
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Reformist Iranian lawmaker Mahmood Sadeqi told the semiofficial Iranian Labor News Agency that he holds details on detained students.
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Oleg, meanwhile, is helping his reformist boss look into the reasons for the bread lines and empty store shelves.
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The reformist Abiy took power last year after three years of sporadic, deadly protests forced his predecessor to resign.
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Economic issues are urgent, and the protests have nothing to do with any factions — neither reformist nor hard-liner.
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" Plus, she adds, "I was following what Macron was doing, which was in my mind humanist, reformist, and European.
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Results are hard to predict, with conservatives traditionally doing well in rural areas and young urbanites favouring more reformist candidates.
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Ms Mulyani's previous reformist stint as finance minister came to an end after a feud with a politically connected tycoon.
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Still, a coalition between the Socialists and Ciudadanos (in either order) looks like the best chance of a reformist government.
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An interior ministry statement said top reformist Mohammed Reza Aref led the race for parliamentary seats among candidates in Tehran.
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The demonstrations, which were largely leaderless and sometimes violent, targeted the reformist president and the hard-line supreme leader alike.
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However, in most cases, the gerrymandering successfully prevents reformist candidates from winning elections, ensuring that the system remains in place.
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In a big win, a reformist-backed list of candidates aligned with Rouhani won all 30 parliamentary seats in Tehran.
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In April, desperate to end the mayhem, the EPRDF named Abiy Ahmed, a 42-year-old reformist, as prime minister.
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Mr Xi's chief economic adviser and deputy prime minister, Liu He, is a reformist who is trusted by business leaders.
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Incredibly, the unrest seems to have been started by religious hardliners, hoping to undermine the reformist presidency of Hassan Rouhani.
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That scandal galvanised law-enforcement agencies, whose anti-corruption drive has the backing of President Moon Jae-in's reformist government.
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A reformist-backed list of candidates aligned with Rouhani was on course to win all 30 parliamentary seats in Tehran.
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The previous government, led by reformist generals, was hungry for legitimacy and hoped to redeem itself by instigating rapid change.
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In 33, when such voters stayed away, a hardline outsider, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, defeated the front-running reformist, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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Due to all the disqualifications, the new moderate list is less impressive and less reformist than it could have been.
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Reformist officials have often had their wings clipped after liberalising drives were stifled by hardliners who feared loss of control.
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Candidates who are secular or who've sided with reformist or centrist policies in the past will most likely be disqualified.
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Rouhani, who campaigned on a reformist platform before his 2013 election, has a lot riding on this round of voting.
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The crucially important French elections went earlier this month to safer, more predictable, decidedly reformist and pro-European political forces.
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Many reformist voters say they are disillusioned, an apathy Rouhani's allies see as the biggest threat to his re-election.
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It is the closest France has got to the reformist Jobs Act rammed through in Italy by Matteo Renzi's government.
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Yet it also shows the gap between a reformist pontiff and a Catholic country that has taken an illiberal turn.
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Reformist lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem said hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians has been robbed of the right to cheap air travel.
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Predictably, France's high unemployment, rising poverty, social unrest and nearly a year of violent demonstrations have damped Macron's reformist zeal.
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A stable Algerian democracy could buttress neighboring Tunisia; a democratic Sudan would help the new reformist regime in nearby Ethiopia.
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But that outreach ultimately led to intensification of anti-Western rhetoric and crackdowns on actual reformist trends within Iranian society.
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Reformist lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem said hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians had been robbed of the right to cheap air travel.
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Mr. Erdogan came to power a seeming reformist, and for a while the country seemed to be a flowering democracy.
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If either of these theories is correct it would be another interesting data point on MBS and his reformist agenda.
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The reformist countries' experiences not only show how well liberal drug policies work; they suggest they need to go further.
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"It is a very big victory," said analyst Saeed Leylaz who was an adviser to former reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
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The Guardian Council, a unelected 12-member clerical body, barred nearly all known reformist figures from standing in the elections.
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They added that while the draft budget reduced wastage of public money, it did not "embody a coherent reformist vision".
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Erasmus's humanist scholarship and reformist Christianity converged in his "Novum Instrumentum," the first Greek New Testament ever to be published.
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Saudi prosecutors have sought the death penalty for Salman al-Awdah, a prominent, reformist cleric who was arrested last September.
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The former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, who was supported by Mr. Rafsanjani, was told not to attend, local websites said.
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In the 2016 parliamentary elections, a high turnout enabled moderate reformist candidates to secure Tehran's 30 seats in the Parliament.
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His current campaign for a civil, anti-sectarian, reformist government raises hopes and possibilities not experienced in recent Iraqi history.
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The genre is increasingly framed as reformist, with critiques of police abuses, overzealous prosecutions and mass incarceration playing central roles.
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"Every major political actor within Iran, from reformist to hard-liner, is saying this is a great loss," she said.
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This pie-eyed pilgrimage shrank after 2016, when a reformist government launched a series of increases in Estonia's alcohol taxes.
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Martial historians see the unifying thread of reformist effort that runs through the careers of Tang Hao and Bruce Lee.
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Affluent whites are one of the highest turnout groups in the country and traditionally a key ally of reformist, outsider candidates.
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The disqualification sent an unmistakable message to Mr. Khomeini and to the reformist bloc he aspires to lead, one analyst said.
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If you take a look at the French elections there is very clear reformist economic agenda coming from the center right.
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The surprise victory in last year's elections of a reformist coalition, Pakatan Harapan (PH), brought his legal troubles to an end.
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France's biggest union, the reformist CFDT, said it was disappointed with what amounted to a missed opportunity to improve labor relations.
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Mr. Kerry pounded out the agreement with the American-educated Mr. Zarif, who was backed by Iran's reformist president, Hassan Rouhani.
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To the world, and to upwardly mobile voters, it presents itself as a modern, reformist party, determined to fulfil India's potential.
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Iran's president, the relatively reformist Hassan Rouhani, has made improving Iran's economy one of the core parts of his political identity.
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The rejects included Hassan Khomeini, a reformist cleric who is the grandson of the founder of the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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"This means that any winner in the elections can be disqualified by the Guardian Council," said Ali Shakourirad, a reformist lawmaker.
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A cabinet reshuffle is likely in August, and any Buggins'-turn appointments will be presented as bringing in new reformist blood.
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The showdown is fast turning into a battle over the survival of both the Socialist government and the reformist French left.
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Reformist intellectuals, who supported a path of incremental change, viewed men like Jianguo as politically naïve and their mission as suicidal.
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Leshchenko and a fellow reformist lawmaker - Mustafa Nayyem - said Ukraine's parliament, the Rada, should launch a special investigation into the allegations.
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Milani noted "the challenges he gave to the IRGC" as well as promises to release reformist leaders held under house arrest.
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And now, they have had to make electoral deals with pragmatists, diluting the very notion of "reformist" as a political category.
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Cordish and Liddell, representing Kushner's Office of American Innovation and its reformist agenda, have already signaled their support for the legislation.
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Derek Kilmer (D-WA), a former McKinsey consultant from the Seattle suburbs with a reformist streak, will lead the committee. Rep.
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He had spent 27 years as a Buddhist monk and founded a reformist Buddhist sect that is still practised in Thailand.
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Rouhani's reinvention as an ardent reformist on the campaign trail helped stir the passion of young, urban voters yearning for change.
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His endorsement for a reformist cabinet would carry a great deal of weight, and his opposition would be a death blow.
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In mid-March, a dozen administrators of reformist channels on Telegram were arrested by the Guards, according to human rights groups.
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"There are enough reformist candidates on the ballot," Foad Izadi, a conservative political analyst, said in a telephone interview from Tehran.
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In 1997, for instance, the reformist Mohammad Khatami won the presidency, despite efforts by Mr. Khamenei to shut down his campaign.
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"The success is clearly motivating others to join," said Nader Karimi Joni, a journalist close to the reformist factions in Iran.
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The conservative HDZ party looks best-placed to work with the center-right, reformist Most party in a renewed coalition government.
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"When they say we are put on notice, it means we should be very careful," said Soroush Farhadian, a reformist journalist.
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" They also described Nimr as "a peaceful reformist that espoused non-violence in his dissent against the government of Saudi Arabia.
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Her only claims to expertise were her negative personal experiences in Islamic school and her current status as a "reformist" Muslim.
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Instead, the period was dominated by political infighting, student protests, sit-ins in Parliament and the closure of dozens of reformist newspapers.
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"We need to remain on the political stage," said Ibrahim Asgarzadeh, a reformist leader who was disqualified from participating in the elections.
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The reformists are even supporting a conservative member of Parliament, Ali Motahari, who stresses that he is independent and not a reformist.
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For the moment, suspicions about Saudi Arabia's role in Khashoggi's disappearance have tainted the reformist image carefully cultivated by Crown Prince Mohammed.
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And at the reformist President Hassan Rouhani's inauguration in 2013, Mr Rafsanjani was seen beaming even more broadly than the incumbent himself.
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Mr Renzi has fallen well short of such improbable ambitions, although he has shown greater reformist zeal than most of his predecessors.
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The conservative New Democracy party, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a staunch reformist, holds a double-digit lead over Syriza in opinion polls.
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This election campaign, however, has not been about contrasting rival versions of reformist economic policy and the likelihood of their practical implementation.
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Chinese officials and academics, especially those with a reformist bent, were acutely aware of their tenuous grasp on economics at the time.
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After the death that spring of Hu Yaobang, a reformist former general secretary of the party, the all-nighters switched to politics.
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Mr Saakashvili, known as a reformist, accused the government of Petro Poroshenko of fostering corruption by backing two of the country's oligarchs.
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A defeat would weaken Matteo Renzi, the reformist prime minister, and embolden the populist Five Star Movement, which favours ditching the euro.
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Last week, the Guardian Council disqualified more than 7,000 of the 12,000 parliamentary candidates, including almost all reformist candidates and many moderates.
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The clash between the parties was not so obvious at first as the AAP, fired by reformist zeal, focused on local affairs.
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The wider European economy is doing well and in Emmanuel Macron Berlin has a uniquely reformist and German-friendly partner in Paris.
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Mr Obama engaged with Iran and Cuba in the hope that the promise of investment would strengthen reformist elements in both regimes.
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When France elected an avowedly reformist president in May, Germany seemed to have found the partner it had long claimed to seek.
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The "fake news" bulletin was an illustration of the increasingly hostile environment facing anti-corruption activists, journalists and reformist officials in Ukraine.
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Reformist President Mohammad Khatami faced similar pressures in his second term, which then gave way to hard-line populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Current reformist president Rosen Plevneliev, who won on a GERB's ticket in 2011, has said he would not run in the race.
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Hasanbegovic is a minister in Croatia's center-right government, an alliance between the conservative HDZ party and the small reformist Most party.
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If Jokowi is to be the man to lead Indonesia to sustained prosperity, he needs to toughen his reformist mettle—and quickly.
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Baghdad's circular walls stood until the early 1870s, when the reformist Ottoman governor Midhat Pasha tore them down to modernize the city.
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He won re-election in a landslide last year, campaigning on an openly reformist platform against a candidate representing Iran's hardline faction.
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The HDZ won 61 seats in the 151-parliament, while the reformist center-right Most ("Bridge") party came third with 13 seats.
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His plans are therefore likely to raise left-leaning voters' hackles and could drive others who feel marginalised into less reformist arms.
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Manuel Valls, the reformist prime minister, who has his own presidential ambitions, is infuriated by Mr Macron's circumvention of the party system.
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"They are doing such things to show us who is in power," Mojgan Faraji, a reformist journalist, said of the hard-liners.
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Korniyets' misdeeds came to light after reformist investigators raided his apartment and found dozens of diamonds, along with cash and other valuables.
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But the reformist conservative agenda is a vastly more serious attempt to address working-class stagnation than another trickle-down tax cut.
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The report attributed the dip to a new political climate in Ethiopia, where reformist prime minister Abiy Ahmed has stopped jailing reporters.
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It was a balmy summer day in June 2001, in the election that won the reformist president Mohammad Khatami a second term.
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But as his politics shifted from revolutionary to reformist socialism, Hook grew embarrassed by this book and resisted requests to reprint it.
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Whether they vote or stay home may be the deciding factor for a reformist or a conservative victory, according to Iranian experts.
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Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the trial of a Saudi religious reformist thinker, Hassan Farhan al-Maliki, drawing more condemnation.
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"Liberalizing the economy of Iran is not an option, it's an obligation," said Saeed Laylaz, a leading reformist economist and Rouhani supporter.
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In many ways, he was lucky to turn 17 in 1997, the year that a reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, came to power.
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His government would probably be less radical than Ms Fernández's was, but less reformist than Mr Macri had hoped his would be.
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"Hardliners are very divided ... moderates and independent candidates will not vote for Qalibaf," said a former reformist official on condition of anonymity.
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Soheila Jolodarzadeh, a leading reformist candidate in Tehran, told VICE News that the public still needs more information about the plane crash.
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By convincing voters that only a coalition with the FPö could unleash his reformist energy, he assembled his government without much protest.
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Two Republicans named Paul (Ron and Rand) advanced ideas in that vein, and Barack Obama was elected as a foreign-policy reformist.
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Once a reformist, Erdogan has become a highly polarizing figure and taken an authoritarian turn, curtailing free speech and jailing tens of thousands.
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First, his reformist image helped attract copious capital flows from abroad, culminating in the sale of a 100-year bond in June 2017.
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Mr Modi, too, for all his promise, is failing in this regard, as he follows more his nationalist, rather than his reformist, instincts.
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But having presented himself as a reformist bent on sweeping aside the deep state, many voters will be expecting more from Mr Rouhani.
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The reformist zeal of the early years of the democratic wave has fallen victim to two recent tendencies in politics: fragmentation and polarisation.
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"Groysman is very dependent on Poroshenko," said Yegor Sobolev, an MP for the reformist Samopomich party, which quit the ruling coalition in February.
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Despite all this, Mr Macri, a reformist of the centre-right, is poised to seek a second term at an election in October.
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As Mustafa Nayyem, a reformist MP, wrote: "In the end, someone will win this fight between two presidents, but it won't be Ukraine."
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Its author, Pavel Vidal, was one of Raúl's team of reformist economic advisers and is now at the Javeriana University in Cali, Colombia.
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An alliance of reformist parties called ACUM, headed by two corruption-fighters, Maia Sandu and Andrei Nastase, took 27 of parliament's 101 seats.
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With the appointment in April of Abiy Ahmed, the country's reformist prime minister, such repressive tactics had seemed a thing of the past.
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An anti-corruption court favoured by civil-society activists, reformist MPs and Western donors faces resistance from entrenched interests, including Mr Poroshenko himself.
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In the first cut only 30 of about 433,000 were approved, leaving large parts of the country without even a single reformist candidate.
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Second, the GOP has produced a bumper crop of young reformist leaders who will shape the politics of this country for a generation.
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Laurent Berger, leader of the reformist CFDT, France's biggest union, said Delevoye's recommendations were "only a report", suggesting that he expected some flexibility.
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Now many leading Tigrayans are being detained or sidelined as reformist prime minister, Abiy Ahmed attempts to draw a line under past abuses.
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The reformist center-left government was punished by popular anger at bailouts that shored up the system but hurt thousands of ordinary savers.
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"They met in prison, of course they can be friends," said Fazel Meybodi, a reformist cleric from the Shiite holy city of Qum.
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Indeed, he left soccer altogether for a time to represent the French-speaking center-right Mouvement Réformateur, or Reformist Movement, in the Senate.
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Argentina elected a new, reformist government in November 2015 that has swiftly jettisoned the statist-populist economic policies of the last 12 years.
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A middle ground might have yielded results: demanding a reformist agenda, taking positions offered to effect change from within the system, instituting accountability.
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Initially a term of abuse, liberalism was soon accepted as a self-description by reformist politicians and intellectuals in Britain and Western Europe.
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The government's efforts to revive the airline has been a setback to the prime minister's efforts to cement his credentials as a reformist.
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In fact, no major reformist figure has come out in favor of the protests, and some activists have even spoken out against them.
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Rouhani's reformist rhetoric, with its emphasis on domestic liberalization and the loosening of restrictions, stood in stark contrast with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's firebrand style.
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"Naturally, officials are nervous over what the impact would be if Trump withdraws from the deal," said Nader Karimi Joni, a reformist journalist.
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It is consuming Parliament, threatening the future of at least one close associate and, for now at least, derailing Mr. Macron's reformist agenda.
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By contrast, the show blames the collapse of the Soviet bloc on reformist politicians like Mikhail S. Gorbachev who abandoned Marxist-Leninist orthodoxies.
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"The president referred to 'restrictions' and said that he was unable to use women," Mahmoud Sadeghi, a parliamentarian, told the reformist newspaper Etemaad.
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As a reformist who turned back the Le Pen populist wave and promises to re-shape French politics — and a winner to date.
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His reformist, adamantly pro-Europe, "radically transformative" agenda, as he describes it, emphasizes individual responsibility while helping workers adjust to a globalized economy.
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Mr. Abiy represents the younger, more reformist wing of the party, though it has yet to carry out systematic political or economic reforms.
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"That message is: We do not share any power with you," said Nader Karimi Joni, a journalist with close ties to the reformist faction.
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Progressive or reformist groups like the NAACP and League of Women Voters have been filing such lawsuits for many years, often citing racial discrimination.
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Working with the government As the centennial of the movement draws near, the reformist spirit of the May 4 protests is still publicly celebrated.
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They have also silenced Muhammad Khatami, his reformist successor as president, banned his name from the media, and barred him from attending the funeral.
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Ms Mulyani, however, is widely regarded as the cabinet's most pro-market member, following a previous, reformist stint as finance minister in 2005-10.
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President Rouhani's reformist allies made gains in the races for parliament and the assembly, both in the hands of anti-Western hardliners for years.
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Saeed Leylaz, a political analyst and economist who served as an adviser to former President Mohammad Khatami, said initial indications were beyond reformist expectations.
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Renzi, a self-styled reformist, pegged his whole political career to the proposed constitutional changes, even tying his government's survival to the vote's results.
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Despite his revolutionary lineage, Hassan Khomeini is politically moderate and close to several reformist politicians who were sidelined after disputed presidential elections in 2009.
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Amid this tough battle, Macron needs a strong manifesto that conveys his message of a pro-business and reformist candidate the Citi note said.
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South Africa's legal team won the case in 1966, but having seen how unpopular apartheid was abroad, Mr Botha came home a reluctant reformist.
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He is viewed as a pragmatic and moderate reformist and likely to secure the majority of the votes from progressives and the middle class.
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The fighting springs partly from competing networks of patronage, and partly from modest ideological differences between conservatives and the prime minister's relatively reformist pals.
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That "upgrade" comes after several months of the Communist government's crackdown on internet speech — on everything from reformist political speech to sexy banana-eating.
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Jannati has chaired the 12-man council since 1988, and has played an active role in disqualifying reformist and liberal contenders in the past.
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The balance between the reformist Rouhani and the hawkish Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei produced the political conditions in which the accord became possible.
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While Zuma's immediate removal is unlikely, South African assets may benefit if his weakened position strengthens the hand of more reformist elements in government.
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On Saturday, Mr. Jafar-Dolatabadi ordered Ms. Khaleghi to explain to judicial officials why such images of her existed, the reformist newspaper Shargh reported.
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Signing the JCPOA did not produce a reformist turn in Tehran; on the contrary, it made matters worse by fueling Iran's aggressive foreign policy.
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"For the first time there is a possibility of a reformist majority within the French unions," said Moec of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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That fall is attributed to Ethiopia not arresting journalists and releasing thousands of political prisoners from jail under its reformist prime minister, Abiy Ahmed.
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Many of those lists were blue, the color of the reformist-moderate faction, while others had the yellow lists put out by hard-liners.
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In the first round of voting last month, pragmatic and reformist forces who support Rouhani made gains against more conservative forces in the parliament.
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In recent years, Mr. Erdogan has broken from the reformist path while forging new alliances, especially with Russia and its strongman leader Vladimir Putin.
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He was a dual national of the kind President Hassan Rouhani, a reformist, is trying to lure back to the country to spur growth.
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In fact, King Mongkut, who reigned from 1851 to his death in 1868, is seen by many historians as a reformist for his time.
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Iran experts say that unwinding the agreement could strengthen the hand of hard-liners who oppose both the deal and Mr. Rouhani's reformist agenda.
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It is yet another example of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's crackdown on dissent, poking holes in the reformist image he has been seeking.
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Shargh, a reformist daily newspaper, said the reformists were also leading in other major Iranian cities like Isfahan, Kerman, Semnan, Shiraz, Tabriz and Zahedan.
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Others wore green, representing the reformist movement crushed by security forces after a 2009 election, whose leaders have been under house arrest since 2011.
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He recorded it with a jazz quintet and 10-piece string section, then added this video, presenting a reformist argument to match the music.
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Ali Shakouri Rad, the head of a reformist political party, said the growing rift between the public and the clerical government had become insurmountable.
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He is considered a pious hard-liner known for closing reformist newspapers and denouncing what he considers a Western cultural onslaught subverting Iran's youth.
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During elections in 2004, Mr. Khamenei and his allies barred hundreds of reformist candidates, devastating their faction and returning power to his hard-liners.
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"I'm a reformist and a progressive, but also a Socialist attached to his party and its values," Luc Carvounas, a lawmaker, said on Twitter.
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The confirmation battle took place over many months, with the young, reformist congressman weathering a barrage of attacks on his politics and his character.
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During his tenure as the central bank chief, Zhou was noted for his reformist policy direction in guiding monetary and economic policies of China.
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But while Putin's continued tenure won't be a surprise, a new and potentially reformist cabinet will be central to defining any future structural reforms.
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Perhaps most directly carrying on the BC legacy is "reformist" label Women's History Museum, founded by N.Y.U. schoolmates Amanda McGowan and Mattie Rivkah Barringer.
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Ethiopia&aposs reformist prime minister flew to Eritrea on Sunday was welcomed with hugs and laughter by Afwerki, a joyous scene unthinkable just months ago.
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He wants to wean SAA off its state support, which is a major risk to South Africa's credit rating, and burnish his economic reformist credentials.
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Passage of the legislation in August was seen as a triumph for Narendra Modi, the prime minister, and the biggest proof of his reformist credentials.
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Argentina today has a reformist government largely intent on doing the right thing, rather than the populist administrations that blighted its recent past (see article).
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For Mr Díaz-Canel and his reformist colleagues the message is clear: speeding up change carries political risks, but not doing so involves economic ones.
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The growing discontent around the country and the U.S. termination of deal has given hard-liners a platform to oppose President Hassan Rouhani's reformist policies.
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The new government was formed by the HDZ and its junior center-right reformist partner Most ("Bridge") after several weeks of negotiations following a Sept.
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Pill also chimed in with others arguing that Macron must win big in June's legislative elections in order to most smoothly implement his reformist agenda.
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Jannati is also the chairman of the Guardian Council, a cleric vetting body that disqualified the majority of reformist candidates from running for the elections.
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The President's visit comes as Iran's President Hassan Rouhani handily won re-election in what amounts to a victory for the Shiite nation's reformist camp.
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The victory of moderates and their reformist allies does not mean there is going to be swift, fundamental changes in Iran's foreign and domestic policy.
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The next vote will test Abiy's reformist agenda that has included ending hostilities with Eritrea, opening the economy to foreign investment, and freeing political prisoners.
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Twice in recent decades, Iran has chosen reformist presidents: in 1997, when Mohammad Khatami took office, and in 2013, with the election of Hassan Rouhani.
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Surely this has something to do with her assignment to cover Mikhail Kuznetsov, a reformist oligarch who is thinking of running against Putin for president.
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While everywhere else reformist social democracy emerged, converted to a market economy that was regulated to limit unemployment and inequality, the French Left stands alone.
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While he failed to put in place much of his reformist agenda, he continues to be viewed by many as a symbol of better times.
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"Markets are hoping for a candidate with a reformist vision rising in the polls, which hasn't happened yet," wrote brokerage Advanced Corretora in a report.
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In Wisconsin, the Turners helped create a reformist Socialist movement whose ideology was not that far from that of Mr. Sanders and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
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In the process, the two great reformist movements of their day — the Renaissance, embodied in Erasmus, and the Reformation, embodied in Luther — were torn asunder.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian lawmakers voted to strip themselves of immunity from prosecution on Tuesday, fulfilling an anti-corruption election promise by reformist President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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But the analysis fails to explain why, for instance, the number of executions in Iran rose under the ostensibly reformist leadership of President Hassan Rouhani.
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The move follows Oreskovic's demand from last week for Karamarko to step down over a row with coalition partner, the small reformist party Most (Bridge).
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Similarly, the Saudis are seeking the death penalty for a prominent, reformist cleric, Salman Al-Oudah, who has called for elections in the Saudi kingdom.
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Refugees from the Ahmadi sect, a Muslim reformist movement seen as heretical by conservative Muslims, cannot return to their homes, which were destroyed by mobs.
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True, reformist French President Emmanuel Macron supported the Siemens tie-up, which targeted 470 million euros of annual cost savings, despite opposition from trade unions.
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However, Abiy's reformist drive has been threatened by long-simmering ethnic rivalries that burst into the open earlier this year through sporadic acts of violence.
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Many officials admired Mr. Li as a reformist who tried to recruit young blood into the party and to redress the injustices of Mao's era.
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"All his actions will be an imitation of work," said Yegor Sobolev, a lawmaker from the reformist Samopomich party, which quit Ukraine's ruling coalition this year.
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The former investment banker won the 2017 election with 66.1 percent of the vote on a reformist project to modernize the euro zone's second largest power.
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The Council not only wants to prevent new reformist candidates from winning office; it also wants to purge the parliament of members it considers too moderate.
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Recently he has developed a controversial sideline in local prosecutorial races, from Louisiana to Illinois, betting that reformist prosecutors can help change the criminal-justice system.
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Born in Rouen, not far from Mr Macron's home town of Amiens, Mr Philippe was drawn as a student to Rocard's version of reformist social democracy.
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A reformist, resolutely modern French president who wants to free his country from the straitjacket of the over-mighty state has been a long time coming.
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"The feeling [among Guatemala's elites] now is, 'Let's protect ourselves, we're all in the same boat'," says Juan Alberto Fuentes Knight, a reformist former finance minister.
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Iran's reformist-backed candidates and independents allied with President Hassan Rouhani have won sweeping victories in parliament and the assembly that appoints the country's supreme leader.
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The grandson, Hassan Khomeini, is a Shiite Muslim cleric of a lower rank than his famous grandfather and is associated with the reformist faction in Iran.
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In April a mock funeral procession gathered outside the home of Olga Balytska, a reformist Kiev city-council member, carrying a coffin plastered with her photograph.
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But it is reformist in that it accepts that the old model put too much emphasis on London and finance, and forgot about making growth inclusive.
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The logic of Owens, as articulated in her writing and interview statements, is formed by the reformist ideology of liberal, centric capitalism, in other words, neoliberalism.
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The pre-election disqualifications prevent many of the moderate or reformist-minded candidates most aligned with Rouhani's vision for greater integration with the world from running.
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Sobchak is the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, the reformist former mayor of St Petersburg who hired Putin as an official in City Hall in the 1990s.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Early Iranian election results show senior reformist Mohammed Reza Aref leading the race for parliamentary seats among candidates in Tehran, the interior ministry said.
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The current reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, has opposed the basic income out of concern that it discourages work, and the policy has been dialed back slightly.
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Days before the congress Omar Everleny Pérez, the most prominent of the reformist economists advising Raúl, was sacked from his post at the University of Havana.
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However, Abiy's reformist drive has been threatened by long-simmering ethnic rivalries that have burst into the open in recent weeks, through sporadic acts of violence.
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Hossein Marashi, a reformist politician, told ILNA news agency 3,000 reformists had registered for the election so far but only 30 had seen their candidacies certified.
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Almost nine years since the "Green movement" reformist protests were crushed by the state, Iran's adversaries voiced their support for the resurgence of anti-government sentiment.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's five-party centrist coalition has united behind business-friendly presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin, boosting the chances of a reformist winning the October election.
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In a televised address earlier this week, 41-year-old reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called upon those hoarding hard currency to deposit it in banks.
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The new government is made up of an alliance of the conservative HDZ party, which nominated Crnoja, and the small reformist Most (Croatian for "bridge") party.
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"The results in Tehran reflect a reformist orientation and focus on improvements in the economy and foreign relations," said one Tehran-based analyst who requested anonymity.
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Dozens of senior officials from METEC, including its head, have been arrested in a corruption crackdown launched by the reformist leader who took office last year.
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The original reformist leaders, who have pleaded for radical changes in law and ideology, are either in jail or prohibited from participating in the political process.
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A reformist-backed list of candidates aligned with Rouhani was on course to win all 30 parliamentary seats in Tehran, initial results released on Sunday showed.
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In 1968, he began filming the documentary "Oratorio for Prague," intended as a hymn to the new artistic freedoms under the reformist government of Alexander Dubcek.
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"We want to eliminate the death penalty for those criminals who act out of desperation," Yahya Kamalpour, a reformist lawmaker, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency.
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This is not the first time Prince Mohammed has undermined the reformist credentials on which he is trying to build a new image of his country.
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As I grew up, Ahmadis went from being treated as zealous reformist Muslims to non-Muslims to kafir, or heretics — worse even than Hindus or Jews.
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To begin with, his distinction between the reformist left and the cultural left is overly simplistic, as is his discussion of the compatibility of these projects.
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The organization's president, Rob Richie, believes that the most valuable lessons for reformist organizers can be learned from FairVote's efforts at the state and local level.
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President Trump's decision in October to decertify the Iran nuclear deal has both angered many world leaders, and put the reformist government in Tehran under pressure.
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Biden is also likely to pull in more moderates and some disaffected Republicans in the suburbs who may be hesitant to back Sanders's more reformist agenda.
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"We should've pushed harder for new laws, and we should've urged people to take to the streets," said Hamidreza Jalaeipour, a reformist politician and sociology professor.
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Iran is too big to isolate; such a strategy will benefit hard-liners in Tehran determined to thwart the steady reformist push of the nation's youth.
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Abiy himself has been in power for a matter of months, pushing a reformist agenda after his predecessor Hailemariam Desalegn resigned in February amid mass protests.
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Any chance of meaningful structural reforms, UBS believes, will rather come if reformist politicians are appointed to the role of prime minister or to the cabinet.
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Science fiction made a resurgence in the early years of Deng Xiaoping's reformist regime, when Liu was writing at night while maintaining his engineering day job.
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The election of reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has vowed to make society more open and took office in April 2018, has accelerated its decline.
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"It is unlikely (Hailemariam's) successor will adopt a more reformist stance," Emma Gordon, senior East Africa politics analyst at consultancy Verisk Maplecroft, told CNBC via email.
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"It is Mr. Khatami who should take on the burden of the late Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani's responsibility," said Mohammadreza Shamsolvaezin, a former reformist politician and activist.
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Khatami is the de facto godfather of Iran's Green Movement, the reformist camp that took to the streets to protest the 2009 re-election of Ahmadinejad.
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Last May, Iranians re-elected president Hassan Rouhani, a reformist leader, in hopes he will slowly edge Iran toward a more open and progressive sociopolitical culture.
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The recent protests seem to have been started in the city of Mashhad by conservative opponents of the reformist President Hassan Rouhani to undermine his government.
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The Iranian government distanced itself from calls for Mr. Rushdie's death under former President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who declared in 1998 that the fatwa had ended.
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Sirisena was elected as a reformist in January 2015, but has struggled to fulfill pledges such as addressing human rights abuses, eliminating corruption and ensuring good governance.
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In the same appeal, the former Iranian president and the leader of Reformist movement, Mohammad Khatami, asked Iranians not to be disappointed by the Guardian Council's decision.
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Rafsanjani and current President Hassan Rouhani are backing pragmatic and reformist candidates in an effort to wrest control of parliament from conservatives in elections on Feb. 26.
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"The attacks heightened this climate of fear regarding Islam," said Tareq Oubrou, an imam in Bordeaux who is a leading proponent of a reformist strain of Islam.
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"In economic affairs the next parliament will be much better than the current parliament," said economist Saeed Leylaz, once an adviser to reformist former President Mohammad Khatami.
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Maithripala Sirisena was elected as a reformist in January 2015, but has struggled to fulfill pledges including addressing human rights abuses, eliminating corruption and ensuring good governance.
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"In economic affairs the next parliament will be much better than the current parliament," said economist Saeed Leylaz, once an advisor to reformist former president Mohammad Khatami.
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It was startling, then, when Ashraf Ghani, a technocratic reformist, picked him as his running mate in 2014, probably to secure votes among Mr Dostum's fellow Uzbeks.
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Mrs Clinton has been studiously ambiguous on such limits, to the regret of reformist Democrats, who note that in most cities charter schools outperform ordinary public schools.
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In 2009, the protests were led by the middle-class youth and professionals alongside the country's reformist political faction, once an integral part of the ruling elite.
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"If Trump adopts a hostile policy towards Iran or scraps the deal, hard-liners and particularly the IRGC will benefit from it," a former reformist official said.
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Look at Turkey, where a once reformist leader has decided to accumulate power and erode traditions of freedom and democracy that were rare in the Middle East.
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Whatever their mistakes and failings, reformist governments in countries like Chile, Brazil and Colombia have shown that inequality, while still high, can be reduced by good policies.
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One reformist analyst, Farshad Ghorbanpour, said that though Mr. Khomeini had been excluded, the decision to allow Mr. Rouhani and Mr. Rafsanjani to run was a success.
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Taken together, these two ideas capture the essence of the reformist philosophy Mr. Malloy has brought to Connecticut's criminal justice system during his five years in office.
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The reformist May 4th movement of 1919, which gave birth to the Communist Party itself, was profoundly critical of Confucianism and other conservative aspects of Chinese culture.
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It was then that the young engineer decided to venture into politics, and was elected as the general secretary of the newly founded Democratic Reformist Party (PRD).
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Ethiopia under reformist new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed already has asked that the U.N. sanctions on Eritrea, one of the world&aposs most reclusive nations, be dropped.
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Within days of the announcement the Guardian Council, a body of jurists and theologians, barred a majority of reformist candidates from running in parliamentary elections next month.
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They had banned most reformist candidates for the Majlis, or parliament, and for a body of Shia clerics, the Assembly of Experts, who select the Supreme Leader.
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But it has since become embroiled in internal disputes, and some analysts think Ramaphosa's reformist credentials will help the ANC eat into the DA's liberal support base.
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Widely regarded as a reformist and capable technocrat, Zhou revamped the state banking system, developed the country's central banking scheme, liberated interest rates and promoted yuan internationalisation.
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The perception that Raisi is a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may also stir moderate and reformist voters to action, the risk consultancy concluded.
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Now many parliamentarians are angry that a government that promotes itself as reformist is arresting critics like Warsame, said Abdirizak Mohamed, a lawmaker and former security minister.
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Referendum on Rouhani In many ways, this election is seen as a referendum on Rouhani, a moderate who campaigned on a reformist platform before his 2013 election.
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One of the new government's moves that has raised eyebrows was the sacking last month of Khurshid Mirzohidov, a reformist chief executive of state television company MTRK.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was then prime minister and is now president, was praised as a reformist who was making his country freer, wealthier and more peaceful.
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Some of this is politics: they never wanted the deal and have tried to sabotage it in order to damage their rival, Iran's reformist president, Hassan Rohani.
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Bhumibol and his father were inheritors of the reformist tradition begun by King Mongkut in the 19th century and accelerated by his son King Chulalongkorn, Bhumibol's grandfather.
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"The crime is what you did, it's not who you are" is an aphorism of anti-incarceration activists, and this perspective enlivens almost all the reformist literature.
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Euro leaders won't want to appear too soft in front of Italy, which just tossed out reformist Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and needs to recapitalise its banks.
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"The president knows that his victories are due to the support of Mr. Khatami, he is now acknowledging that," said Mojgan Faraji, a reformist journalist and analyst.
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Christophe Caresche, head of the reformist branch of the Socialist party in the lower house of parliament, meanwhile told a newspaper on Sunday he would endorse Macron.
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National Review's David French correctly attributes some of this reformist energy to Twitter, where activists on both sides have a disproportionate ability to shape the public debate.
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To some, the arrests portend a quick consolidation of authority under the young, reformist Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who wants to vault the country to modernity.
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Mr. Joko's supporters say that his second term will allow him to pursue a reformist agenda without having to worry about re-election because of term limits.
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"The government wants to show that any crackdown against the veil is illegal and not democratic," said Fazel Meybodi, a reformist cleric from the city of Qom.
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To end the succession battle, the choice is clear: The new reformist leaders of the Oromo People's Democratic Organization, led by Lemma Megersa, enjoy substantial public support.
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Two reformist unions that have the second and fourth biggest membership among rail workers said they would back the proposals while the smaller Sud Rail rejected it.
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Back in 2008, two "spy pigeons" were suspected of being used to gather intelligence about Iran's uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, reported Iran's reformist paper Etemad Melli.
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Bahareh Arvin, a reformist member of the Tehran City Council, took to social media to say she was resigning in protest at the government's lies and corruption.
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Many of Iran's voters looked to reformist candidates' promises of a more open Iran and better economic prospects stemming from the nuclear deal, which lifted international sanctions.
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Mr. Macron's background aside, his reformist zeal is hardly unrealistic: He wants to cut the ratio of government spending to G.D.P. to 53 percent from 56 percent.
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There is also a danger that Ramaphosa could get bogged down in internecine party battles over the central bank that could distract him from his reformist agenda.
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Cyril Ramaphosa, a market-friendly reformist, won the ANC's leadership in mid-December and is widely viewed as a favorite to lead the country after Zuma's departure.
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The philosopher was a reformist, known for then radical ideas about free speech, abolition of slavery, gay rights, ending the death penalty, and humane treatment of animals.
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Weeks before voting, the government had seen the momentum of the reformist, or Green Movement, presidential candidates on social media, and censored Facebook and Twitter to curtail mobilization.
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The meeting would bring together Ethiopia&aposs reformist new prime minister, who took office in April, and the president of one of the world&aposs most reclusive nations.
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Last week, nine reformist political parties complained that the council had approved only 30 of the 3,000 moderates who registered, and urged top leaders to reverse the disqualifications.
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Mr Khamenei's men thwarted an earlier reformist president, Muhammad Khatami, and his promises of a fully-fledged democracy by disqualifying thousands of parliamentary candidates and shutting down newspapers.
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Mr Xi has justified his vigilance by quoting the words of a Chinese reformist in the 19th century: "To annihilate a country, you must first eradicate its history".
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But it also brought back painful memories for Argentines, highlighted doubts about Mr Macri's approach to mending Argentina's economy and cast a shadow over the reformist president's future.
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"If Trump's presidency scares away foreign investors from Iran, then it is the IRGC that will regain its economic power," said a former reformist official close to Rouhani.
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Working with reformist officials, Western governments promoted the idea that China could benefit from the rule of law, even if it were not ready to adopt universal values.
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But despite her bid to create what she called a "reformist, conservative" rival to Abe's LDP, Koike's party won only 51 seats in the 465-member lower house.
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Macron also pledged to set a minimum pension of 1,000 euros a month, which was welcomed by Laurent Berger, the head of France's biggest union, the reformist CFDT.
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Reformist university professor Sadeq Zibakalam said hardliners were still refusing to accept the election's verdict: that an overwhelming majority of Iranians want the system to become more open.
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During the '90s, Museveni was touted by foreign governments as an example of reformist African leadership, particularly for the way his administration reduced the HIV infection rate nationwide.
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"Stop sanctions on happiness," cries a local economics professor and reformist candidate, vowing to fight a ban on concerts, upheld by Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, the city's main preacher.
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Some prominent reformist politicians and rights activists have accused Rouhani of rolling over to hardliners since being re-elected and there have been calls for him to quit.
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Another Iranian official said Trump's hawkish Iran policy had united the Islamic Republic's often feuding leadership - split into hardline conservative, pragmatist and reformist factions - in alignment with Russia.
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Reformists stormed to power with the 1997 election of President Mohammad Khatami, followed by 2000 parliamentary elections that brought a reformist majority in parliament for the first time.
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In the process, Beck has become something of a rising star in the reformist wing of American policing—in large part due to his innovative community policing work.
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Earlier on Wednesday, jailed reformist Anwar Ibrahim was granted a full pardon and freed, underlining the dramatic changes in the Southeast Asian country in the last seven days.
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The Florence born politician, previously dubbed the "demolition man" for his ambitious reformist policies, had stepped down as prime minister in December after a jarring constitutional referendum defeat.
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The Communist Party in Vietnam chose not to endorse the hopes of the colourful reformist prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, to accede to the post of party chief.
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"The Guardian Council has ruined the joy that arose from the lifting of sanctions," Shahrbanoo Amani, a former reformist MP and now disqualified candidate told Fars news agency.
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" Indeed, he was always the number two figure in the clerical regime — a fact that is at odds with his widespread portrayal in Western media as a "reformist.
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In the spring Mr Rivera deprived the country of the only real prospect of a strong, reformist government by setting his face against an agreement with Mr Sánchez.
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That was when Mr Rivera deprived the country of its only realistic prospect of a strong, reformist administration by setting his face against an agreement with Mr Sánchez.
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Trump's speech comes just five months after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani handily won re-election in what was widely seen as a victory for the country's reformist camp.
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My quarry was Vladimir Karlovich Vinberg, my great-great grandfather, a reformist in the Imperial Duma, or parliament, and an active figure in running both Crimea and Yalta.
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During that waiting period he focused on restoring American strength and bringing pressure on the Soviet Union to produce a reformist leader — Gorbachev — with whom he could negotiate.
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The election will see Rouhani facing off against Raisi, conservative Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, ex-conservative culture minister Mostafa Mirsalim and reformist ex-vice president Mostafa Hashemitaba.
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But the reformist critique of antitrust policy as currently structured is a lot like that old joke about dissatisfied diners complaining about terrible food coming in tiny portions.
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It is possible to predict a political horror story because the ruling center-left Democratic Party, which is pro-European and broadly reformist, has fallen out of favor.
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The basic outlines here were hawkish on foreign policy, reformist on political process, and favorable toward high-minded elite projects like comprehensive immigration reform and carbon emissions pricing.
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The Tehran prosecutor's office summoned Mr. Najafi, and the City Council, which is dominated by reformist politicians like Mr. Najafi, held an emergency meeting to discuss the episode.
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The election of Donald Trump, followed by his withdrawal from the nuclear deal and renewed American sanctions against Iran, has brought Mr. Rouhani's reformist momentum to a halt.
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The protests had broken out in April, when students marched to mourn the sudden death of Hu Yaobang, a popular reformist leader, and demand cleaner, more open government.
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Progressives are winning important victories on these fronts by electing reformist prosecutors, but constitutional rulings can press change throughout the system, not just in sympathetic cities and states.
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Mr. Macron will need a big majority to push his reformist agenda, friendly to markets and France's social protections, through the Palais Bourbon in Paris, where Parliament meets.
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Many in Iran's moderate and reformist faction are guardedly optimistic that the country is changing, albeit in fits and starts, and always subject to reversals by hard-liners.
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Most of Mr. Abadi's nominees are reformist technocrats, people with integrity and excellent credentials — but they do not represent Iraq's major parties, nor do they have their support.
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Qalibaf was among a group of Guards commanders who sent a letter to then-president Mohammad Khatami, a reformist, threatening a coup unless he moved to end demonstrations.
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Twelve of these middle men have been arrested so far, with others still under investigation, according to reformist Member of Parliament Mahmoud Sadeghi, who helped uncover the scandal.
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Karroubi and fellow reformist presidential contender Mir Hussein Moussavi, who has also been under house arrest since 2011, have been accused of stoking unrest after the 2009 polls.
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The Party of Hope, which Tokyo Governor Koike launched last month as a "reformist, conservative" alternative to the LDP, has lost momentum since the previous survey, Kyodo said.
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He is seen as honest, authentic, reformist and anti-establishment and radiates a political goodwill, compared to the hostility that Trump radiates, which is anathema to political independents.
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Others need to follow, and as the year was coming to a close, sports governing bodies were often stumbling over one another to project transparency and reformist zeal.
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"According to the classified official bulletin, at least 631 people were killed during the unrest ... most of them were lower-income people," the Iranian reformist Kaleme website reported.
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"This is just to overshadow the elections, because the hard-liners and their media want to dissuade people from voting in large numbers," said Mojgan Faraji, a reformist journalist.
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Trump and her supporters have hailed her as a reformist who will give students more choice in their education, but concerns about her qualifications mounted after her confirmation hearing.
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Trump and DeVos' supporters have hailed her as a reformist who will give students more choice in their education, but concerns about her qualifications mounted after her confirmation hearing.
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He has yet to produce a detailed program but has portrayed himself as an independent reformist candidate who wants to break from the tradition of left-versus-right politics.
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"We cannot allow a red general to lead Bulgaria," said Bozhidar Lukarski, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, one of the five parties making up the Reformist Bloc.
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Poe, the daughter of a former movie action star and presidential candidate, is largely seen as the other candidate of change, who combines popular appeal with a reformist agenda.
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"Parliament will take steps to support and defend the Guards whenever it feels they are under threat," said reformist lawmaker Kamal Dehqan Firouzabadi, according to the Tasnim news agency.
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They remember how, six months after the re-election of another reformist, Muhammad Khatami, America's then president, George W. Bush, pronounced Iran a member of the "axis of evil".
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To set this right they offer variations on reformist themes, promising to free up enterprise, lighten the weight of the state, encourage job creation, reward risk and improve education.
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This is the "mindfulness" section of the new "happiness" curriculum, which was introduced in July by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the reformist outfit that runs the city government.
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Gearing up for his reelection campaign, Franklin Roosevelt watched with mounting alarm as the papermakers and dairy farmers in New Hampshire started to consider forging their own reformist agenda.
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The main obstacle to Rouhani's bid for a second term is apathy from reformist voters, many of whom now say they are disappointed by the slow pace of change.
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"The balance of payments surplus is expected to benefit from renewed inflows given the reformist credentials of the key economic appointments," J.P. Morgan said in a note on Thursday.
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But numerous reformist candidates were disqualified, frustrating many Iranians and limiting the ability of the president, Hassan Rouhani, to fulfill promises to increase personal liberties and end Iran's isolation.
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Graham's dramatic plea points to a potentially devastating problem for Saudi Arabia, a country whose young crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, has been heralded as a visionary reformist leader.
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Reformist officials and ministers in the Ukrainian state have complained their efforts to root out graft are resisted by MPs, ministers and officials who profit from the current system.
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Magufuli, a reformist who took office in November, has sacked several senior officials for graft and cut spending he deemed wasteful, such as curbing foreign travel by public officials.
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A former government advisor to Al-Jaber said she was a reformist who empathized with the concerns of workers and would seek to avoid job losses and plant closures.
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For shareholders who have enjoyed a rally in bank shares over the last 12 months, the risk is the good news encourages reformist officials to be tougher with borrowers.
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Rouhani, known for decades as a mild-mannered member of the establishment, campaigned as an ardent reformist to stir up the passions of young, urban voters yearning for change.
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One option was appointing Yaresko at the head of a technocrat government, he said, and another was a political government led by the chief of the reformist Samopomich party.
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Malaysia is also in the midst of a dramatic change led by a new reformist government that aims to end its use of capital punishment to deter crimes entirely.
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Many youths feel Iran better under Rouhani "It's obvious that he understands the problem," said Parnian Seyfe, 19, standing in a flag-filled square outside the reformist candidates' headquarters.
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Some reformist critics say he neglected the cause of curbing the powers of the security forces and rolling back restrictions that govern how Iranians dress, behave, speak and assemble.
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The animated Florence-born politician, previously dubbed the "demolition man" for his ambitious reformist policies, faced an embarrassing constitutional referendum defeat in December and was subsequently forced to resign.
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Guo is considered by many as a passionate reformist, drawing up more than 70 new policies during his 18 months as chief stock market regulator from 2011 to 2013.
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Awdah, whom U.N. experts have described as a "reformist" and an influential religious figure who has urged greater respect for human rights within Sharia, was arrested in Sept. 2017.
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Saudi Arabia's current reformist leader is younger and has more access to professional help from Western experts on change management than the already ageing leaders in the late 1990s.
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Iran's hard-line judiciary began a crackdown on such behavior after the sweeping victory of a reformist and moderate coalition in the Tehran constituency in parliamentary elections in February.
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Minhaj devoted the entire episode of his new comedy/commentary show "Patriot Act" to a thorough takedown of Saudi Arabia and its supposedly reformist young leader Mohammed bin Salman.
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As his campaign for re-election got under way, many reformist voters said they were disillusioned, an apathy Rouhani's allies saw as the biggest threat to his re-election.
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The adjective "green" is of course as susceptible to abusive and hypocritical invocation as any other high-sounding slogan, but some such—still capitalist, merely reformist, finally inadequate—U.
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In 1744, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a reformist cleric, sought the protection of Muhammad bin Saud, a powerful tribal leader in the harsh desert of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Koike rose suddenly from Japan's widespread ennui surrounding the country's club of gray-haired male elites and became Tokyo's first female governor from the reformist conservative platform last year.
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Guo is considered by many as a passionate reformist, drawing up more than 70 new policies during his 18 months as chief stock market regulator from 2011 to 20103.
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Two other reformist leaders and former presidential challengers, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hussein Moussavi, have been under house arrest since the disputed 2009 election, when they joined the opposition.
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The reformist instinct of MbS to attract foreign direct investment as a means to grow the Saudi economy has also run into headwinds due to His Royal Highness's behavior.
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Only a quarter of the French electorate supported his reformist agenda, and his victory is regarded by many as more of a rejection of an increasingly powerful National Front.
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But Fund officials are concerned that the country is backsliding on some of its promises, while reformist politicians and activists have questioned the authorities' commitment to enacting lasting change.
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In his twenties, Baccio became enamored of the reformist preachings of Savonarola, a vocal critic of the ruling Medici clan who advocated the destruction of secular art and culture.
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But he has refused to respond to the allegations from a Vatican diplomat, who has opposed Francis' reformist agenda, that Francis himself was negligent in handling then-Cardinal McCarrick.
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Sunday's elections in France, for mayors and city councils, have been regarded as a critical referendum on Mr. Macron's reformist government, though turnout is now expected to be low.
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And trying to brazen your way into the clear with empty promises of an investigation and blustering threats of diplomatic reprisal isn't evidence of a young ruler's reformist instinct.
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The protests were the first major demonstrations since the 2009 demonstrations, and they appeared to be steered by reformist politicians who had challenged the re-election of Mr. Ahmadinejad.
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In an astonishing U-turn two years ago, the two came together to form the reformist Pakatan Harapan, or Pact of Hope, alliance to oust Najib Razak's UMNO government.
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Rival factions in his coalition want that to mean further action, with the reformist camp led by Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron pushing for an acceleration of free-market reforms.
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On Monday, the government closed the popular reformist news website Entekhab for publishing false rumors over the weekend that Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of National Security Council, had resigned.
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It was easy to miss the fact that reformist political energies, in migrating to the defense of consumers, had migrated away from the assault on conglomerate power as such.
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Rejection of the constitutional changes was actually a reaction to Mr. Renzi's "reformist program that in some way threatened a big part of the social political equilibrium," he said.
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"In economic affairs the next parliament will be much better than the current parliament," said Saeed Leylaz, an economist who served as advisor to reformist former president Mohammad Khatami.
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Not only is our movement based on a deep conviction that morally upright societies prosper, but its peaceful reformist approach has also guaranteed its longevity, as history has demonstrated.
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Davutoglu said the party's reformist, liberal ethos had been replaced in recent years by a more statist, security-based approach that was driven by concerns about preserving the status quo.
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On the one side comes accommodation to the party's many stakeholders, itself a reflection not only of the party's coalitional diversity but of the less reformist strands in its heritage.
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When a religious institution relies as much on bureaucracy and machination as does the Catholic Church, this kind of division threatens to make a would-be reformist leader particularly ineffective.
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"His program is clear in affirming that the reformist agenda it proposes would take place within institutional structures to inspire a new country," CGN president Jorge Humberto Botero told journalists.
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenian President Borut Pahor nominated a reformist economist for the post of central bank governor on Friday, after lawmakers rejected his first choice for the job last month.
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The minority—perhaps a third of the total—who strongly support the reformist pontiff see this as an opportunity to make his case for a broader definition of "life" issues.
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Candidates on the reformist list also took all 30 parliamentary seats in the Tehran constituency, up from just two previously, final results released by Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli showed.
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Jannati is also the chairman of the Guardian Council, a hardline vetting body that disqualified the majority of prominent reformist and many moderate candidates from running for both the elections.
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It embodies the concerns of two groups alarmed at his stewardship: traditionalists of various stripes who resent his reformist agenda; and Catholics dismayed by his handling of clerical sex abuse.
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That Mr Huck, who has no previous political experience, may well be the best hope for the reformist centre says much about the way Brazilian democracy has changed since 1988.
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Jannati is also the chairman of the Guardian Council, a hardline vetting body that disqualified the majority of prominent reformist and many moderate candidates from running in the February elections.
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Analysts see the fomenting of a "red scare" as partly aimed at Widodo, a reformist and moderate who has often been falsely labeled by enemies as a descendant of communists.
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Guo, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), whose rich experience and reformist credentials are similar to Zhou's, is seen as more qualified for the job, the sources said.
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In his live speech, carried by state TV, Rouhani also praised former president Mohammad Khatami, in defiance of a ban imposed against mentioning the reformist leader or publishing his pictures.
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Mahathir facilitated a royal pardon that freed reformist icon Anwar Ibrahim, who was jailed in 2015 in what he said was a conspiracy by Najib to crush his opposition alliance.
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"Jaresko is one of the last genuinely reformist and technocratic ministers in the government, and we expect that her departure would be interpreted negatively by Ukraine's western partners," McDowell explained.
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His election win has led to renewed calls for Germany to support his reformist agenda and make his task more palatable in France by acquiescing in easing eurozone spending rules.
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In mid-March, the IRGC arrested a dozen administrators of reformist social media channels on the platform Telegram, which is hugely popular in Iran and used by millions of people.
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The normally mild-mannered cleric is trying to hold on to office by firing up reformist voters who want less confrontation abroad and more social and economic freedom at home.
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Father Sean McDonagh, a leading member of the reformist Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland, welcomed the warmer tone of the document but said he was disappointed by several things.
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When U.S. diplomats who'd attended Zelensky's swearing-in came to brief Trump about the new leader on May 23, they sought to talk up his reformist and anti-corruption agenda.
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Reformist former President Mohammad Khatami last Sunday called for a high turnout in the second round of elections to "repeat the epic", a reference to moderates' big gains in February.
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He promised to heal the wounds of the previous presidential vote in 2009, when mass reformist protests were violently crushed after the disputed the re-election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Bi Jingquan, the reformist bureaucrat who has led China's drugs watchdog the CFDA since 2015, views innovative - and affordable - drugs as the key to meeting the country's growing clinical demands.
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Moderate candidates took all 30 parliamentary seats in the Tehran district; combined with gains in other cities, reformist and moderate forces could secure a majority in the 290-seat Parliament.
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The crown prince has since tried to craft an image of himself as a young reformist pushing the Saudi kingdom into the 21st century with his economic and social reforms.
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The internal challenge is that the country is politically and factionally divided between the warlords and local strongmen on the one side and the educated reformist technocrats on the other.
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It is true that it is a major sponsor of groups like Hezbollah, and it played a central role in the violent clampdown against the reformist Green Movement in 2009.
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"I called to friends across the country, in provincial cities, everywhere I'm hearing the same thing: There are many more Rouhani supporters everywhere," said Nader Karimi Joni, a reformist journalist.
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A leader in the reformist movement in Iran, Mr. Khatami has been barred from appearing or even being mentioned in Iranian media because of his support for the 2009 protests.
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The reformists' list there is led by Mohammad Reza Aref, a Stanford-educated former presidential candidate and minister, who served as vice president to the reformist Khatami in 2001-2005.
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The air crash was a trial for Ethiopia's reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who later in the year won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for achieving peace with neighboring Eritrea.
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But he argued that Trump is not primarily to blame, noting that Iran's clerical establishment was restricting reformist politics and cracking down on dissent long before the current U.S. administration.
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So the Liberal Party would back Democrats who aligned with what was initially a reformist, progressive, anti-communist strain, the Conservative Party would coendorse anti-abortion Republicans, and so on.
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At 56, she is now firmly in the reformist camp, endorsing Rouhani's vision of a freer society and diplomatic detente after the lifting of sanctions under the deal he engineered.
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When a reformist tide of traditional Thai food began rolling in about a decade ago, it was led by restaurants specializing in the cooking of the north and northeast regions.
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If anything, his background is more radical than that of Chávez, who came up as a military man and originally took office promising to lead Venezuela down a reformist path.
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At times his language has been even more reformist than Deng's, at others it has been coloured by nationalism, with warnings against the "infiltration" of China by "Western thinking and culture".
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The young supporters of Iran's reformist movement gathered behind the safe walls of a sports hall last week to campaign for elections on Friday for Parliament and an influential clerical council.
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Since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012, reformist magazines and websites have been shut while university professors and even the country's judiciary have been warned against spreading liberal Western values.
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Optimists hope that having gotten what he has long desired, Erdoğan will abandon the confrontational style of recent years to make an at least partial return to his earlier reformist self.
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Ethiopia&aposs reformist new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in Eritrea&aposs capital and a live broadcast by Eritrea&aposs state television showed President Isaias Afwerki greeting him at the airport.
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No major figure in today's Republican Party perfectly reflects a reformist agenda, but at least a couple of candidates come much closer than Rubio—and one of them is extremely popular.
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Yourievsky's family moved to Switzerland in 1957, and he did not visit Russia until August 1991, ironically the same week that Soviet government officials tried to topple reformist leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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It is notable, too, that despite the country's descent into recession and inflation, it is not impossible that the reformist, moderate government of Mauricio Macri will win an election next year.
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Jump to the 1920s, and a reformist scholar, Wang Jingzhai, promoted the phrase aiguo aijiao or "loving our country is as one with loving our faith", which hangs in Chinese mosques.
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The World Economic Forum, citing several economic analysts, said the reformist candidates' win opens the way for changes to economic policy that will boost foreign investment and trade with the West.
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India's stock market performance was relatively stable during Rajan's tenure, with foreign investors drawing comfort from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reformist credentials as well as Rajan's steady handling of the economy.
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Gorbachev, whose visibly ailing health was in stark contrast to the vigorous reformist figure he cut in the 1980s, said the world was moving dangerously closer to a new arms race.
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Starting in the 22016s, as incarceration rates in the United States doubled even though crime in its 22014 biggest cities had dropped by half since 1991, a few reformist prosecutors emerged.
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The Path Forward: Instead of bolstering the conservative, anti-American elements in Iran at the expense of moderates, the Trump administration should seek to strengthen the reformist voices currently in power.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Humbled by French President Francois Hollande's recent cabinet reshuffle, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron will struggle to keep a reformist agenda alive as the Socialists focus on looming political battles.
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And the kingdom has stepped up an aggressive public relations campaign in the West, hiring American publicists to counter critical news media reports and fashion a reformist image for Saudi leaders.
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Data from private pollsters based on counts of vote samples were in line with opinion polls that had predicted a win for Widodo, a former furniture businessman and low-key reformist.
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Both conservative and reformist camps worry the new faces may lack the clout to push — or to block — Rouhani's reforms and the experience to stay united in the face of setbacks.
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In a 2628 tell-all interview with a prominent reformist newspaper, Rouhani bragged about the successes he had when negotiating with the EU-28500 over Iran's nuclear program from 6900-2628.
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So the best chance to strengthen rent laws and protect affordable housing is to deliver the Senate into Democratic hands in November, and elect reformist Democrats in the primary on Thursday.
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In January, Mr. Morales fired his reformist interior minister and appointed Enrique Degenhart, who worked to block the government's cooperation with the commission, reassigning police officers that worked alongside the prosecutors.
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It can improve the IMF's image by concretely supporting a reformist government and help to prevent spillover to other emerging markets that could be adversely affected by rising U.S. interest rates.
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"The proposals will allow Macron to prove his reformist credentials and give him strong momentum to pursue further policy changes at home and abroad," Teneo Intelligence said in a press note.
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Macron will be hoping to get on board the reformist CFDT, which supported last year's plans and has now overtaken the more militant CGT as the strongest in the private sector.
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To the extent that those movements were reformist rather than revolutionary, they were not Marxist (although Marx did, in later years, speculate about the possibility of a peaceful transition to communism).
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Zhou Xiaochuan, widely considered a reformist voice in China, is more than two years past retirement age, so predicting his departure has become a popular parlor game in China's financial world.
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Not only did he win by promising a law and order crackdown, but the electoral contest was further marred by the disqualification of a popular reformist candidate on dubious legal grounds.
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"He was chained and handcuffed for months inside his cell," his daughter wrote in an Op-Ed for The Times that questions the reformist image of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Reformist-backed candidates in Iran's elections are on course to win all 30 parliamentary seats in the capital Tehran, according to initial results released by the interior ministry on Sunday.
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Most reformist candidates have been barred by a hardline clerical vetting body, along with many moderates, but their supporters have called on voters to back Rouhani's allies and keep the conservatives out.
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But a long-shot reformist presidential candidate by the name of Barack Obama also criticized it as an example of the kind of wasteful corporate welfare he thought the country shouldn't tolerate.
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In recent weeks, however, her perceived affiliation with oligarchs such as Danding Cuajuangco and the endorsement of former president and convicted plunderer, Joseph Estrada, have partly undermined her authenticity and reformist appeal.
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"This election can be a turning point in the history of the Islamic Republic," said an editorial in reformist newspaper Mardomsalari, whose managing editor, Mostafa Kavakebian, won a parliamentary seat in Tehran.
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A total of 16 people have been killed in at least four cities since fierce clashes broke out on Wednesday against the reformist policies of Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
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He thanked his reformist predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, defying a ban on mentioning the name of the ex-president — a sign that he will translate his impressive mandate into a combative second term.
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The second blow is to the reformist faction headed by Mr Rouhani—and to all those who have pinned their hopes on him as the architect of a sort of Iranian glasnost.
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That undoes administrative changes made two decades ago by the reformist prime minister of the time, Zhu Rongji, intended precisely to separate party and state, professionalise government and spur market-led change.
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Despite the political divisions, Turkey could be one of the major beneficiaries as Rouhani, bolstered by reformist gains in February elections, pursues plans to strengthen the private sector and welcome foreign investors.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian poet who backed a reformist candidate in 2009's disputed presidential election has been detained amid a crackdown on artists and activists, a U.S.-based rights group said.
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Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was careful to flag negotiations with unions, in contrast with the first raft of reforms, which Macron rammed through parliament via decrees, infuriating even the most reformist unions.
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Calling himself a "centrist reformist," Guzman has promised to take the country back from a "corrupt" political elite that he says is now pulling strings to have him barred from the race.
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The problems start with the fact that the regime disqualified roughly half of the candidates who applied to run in the parliamentary elections, and reformist candidates were strongly represented among the disqualifications.
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The conservative HDZ and a small centre-right reformist party, Most ("Bridge"), are in talks on forming a new cabinet, and leaders have said they hope to strike a deal within days.
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MORE: Why you should care about Iran's elections Out of 230 seats, the reformist and their moderate allies won 43 of the parliamentary seats, conservatives 24, independents 215, and five minority representatives.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's parliament postponed a national census for a second time on Monday, citing security concerns but potentially undermining logistics for the first election under reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
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Paradoxically, it may be easier to generate energy for ratification of a packet of reformist constitutional amendments than just one (not least, because that would allow for horse-trading among advocacy groups).
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Natalia Compagnon was convicted after an investigation that lasted several years and was seen as having dented Bachelet's reputation and hampered her attempts to push a reformist agenda through a divided congress.
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Editorial President Hassan Rouhani of Iran was quick to boast about returns showing that his reformist and moderate supporters had done well in voting for Iran's new Parliament and influential clerical council.
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But back to the Republicans: the reformist hope was, I guess, that the donor class itself would realize the need to soften the party's ideology in the face of a changing society.
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Yet independent tallies suggest this will be the first parliament in more than 20 years without either a conservative or reformist majority, and the novices' allegiances may switch between Iran's many factions.
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More than 75,19923 Salvadorans, most of them civilians, died in fighting that was touched off in 1979 by a right-wing backlash against the overthrow of a military dictator by reformist officers.
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Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani, 64, a reformist politician and founding member of Iran's Solidarity Party, died from the virus in the Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
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FDR, a classic reformist liberal, delivered the New Deal and encouraged the growth of labor unions, but he also shamefully ignored the interests of African Americans and interned Japanese Americans during WWII.
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While rebranding Ukraine's Moscow-aligned president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, as a reformist candidate who favored closer ties to the European Union, they sought investment deals with politically connected industrialists in Eastern Europe.
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In 1967, Logue ran for mayor of Boston, and, though regarded as a serious contender, was squeezed between another reformist candidate, Kevin White, and Louise Day Hicks, a ferocious anti-busing activist.
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Hila Sedighi backed a reformist candidate in 2009's disputed presidential election and one of her poems was used as a campaign slogan by Mirhossein Mousavi, who is now under house arrest.
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The outrage led to the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico and other top government officials, and helped a political novice with a reformist vision, Zuzana Caputova, win the presidency last year.
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"There were a high number of disqualifications of reformist candidates ... for the election, but that's just one factor among many as to why we should expect a more conservative parliament," she said.
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Participants in the reformist Grand Bargain pledged to allocate at least 25 percent of funds to local organizations by 2020, a step that will decentralize aid and promote local ownership of projects.
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Rolling out a national ultra-fast broadband network is a key plank in the reformist agenda of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi who has enlisted state-controlled Enel's help to achieve the goal.
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Saudi Arabia has exploited the general indifference of the West toward its internal politics and presented the crackdown against reformist figures like my father as a move against the conservative religious establishment.
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"The election results were surely a big victory for moderate forces and a terrifying failure for hardliners," Saeed Laylaz, an Iranian journalist associated with the country's reformist movement, told the Financial Times.
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Iran's beleaguered reformist faction has tried to flood the vetting committee, known as the Guardian Council, with candidates, hoping that enough would slip through for their faction to win a majority in Parliament.
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"At least if I vote for a reformist, I will reduce the number of hard-liners," said Shahin Hemati, a 28-year-old dentist, expressing a widespread attitude in the more affluent areas.
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The reformist former prime minister is now favourite to become president, with a flash opinion poll showing he would easily beat National Front leader Marine Le Pen in a run-off second round.
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Koike, who defied the LDP last year to run for governor, calls her fledgling party a "reformist, conservative" group free from the fetters of vested interests — an often popular campaign slogan in Japan.
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Amid signs that voters are disillusioned with Abe after nearly five years in power, Koike's Hope party, pitched as a "reformist, conservative" alternative to Abe's equally conservative LDP, has clouded the outlook, however.
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Akihito reigns over a diminished family tree, which was brutally pruned after the second world war by reformist Americans who wanted to limit the number of people who claimed affiliation with the family.
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As a senior diplomat dealing with human rights, he brought the power of the reformist foreign ministry to bear on the secretive health ministry, which flatly denied that any abuse was taking place.
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Early results from this week's pivotal election in Iran indicate that President Hassan Rouhani and his reformist allies have made significant gains, an outcome that could speed up the country's emergence from isolation.
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After Deng became China's top ruler in the late 1970s, Li's political fortune continued to rise, despite clashes between his conservative ideology and the reformist agenda of a more liberal Party leadership wing.
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The reformist former prime minister is now favored to become president, with a flash opinion poll showing he would easily beat National Front leader Marine Le Pen in a run-off second round.
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"But socialist sympathisers aren't as opposed to economic reforms," Mr Cautrès said, pointing to the popularity among centre-left voters of Emmanuel Macron, the reformist economy minister behind Mr Hollande's supply-side shift.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's reformist Samopomich party has effectively buried lawmakers' plans to replace Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's government with a technocrat cabinet, a senior lawmaker in President Petro Poroshenko's party said on Tuesday.
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And in March Wang Meng, a former minister of culture under Deng, wrote in Yanhuang Chunqiu, a reformist magazine, that China bore an "unshirkable responsibility" to explain the politics of the Cultural Revolution.
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And they have so far stayed true to their pledge not to turn on each other for political gain, as moderate candidates warn that their reformist agenda will only ensure Trump's re-election.
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"It peels away the veneer of progress under Mohammed bin Salman and reveals the Kingdom's true intolerant face which criminalizes people's identities, as well as progressive and reformist thoughts and ideas at home."
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Their frustration led to the Revolution of Dignity on Kyiv's Maidan square, Yanukovych's flight to Russia and, a few months later, the election of new, reformist leaders led by current President Petro Poroshenko.
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They run a wide gamut of ideological stances, from the democratic socialism of Bernie Sanders to the reformist liberalism of Elizabeth Warren to the nostalgic centrism of Biden, Beto O'Rourke, and Cory Booker.
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Many establishment liberals still hope that the partnership between untrammeled capitalism and liberal democracy can be patched up, but a growing and restive chorus of radical and reformist voices roots for their separation.
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After the CIA toppled a reformist democratic government in the name of anti-communism in 1954, a long line of military dictators followed, engendering left-wing guerrilla movements that they proceeded to crush.
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The president of opposition party Reformist Forces for Union and Solidarity (FONUS) Joseph Olenga Nkoy said 53 people were killed in the clashes while a local rights official said 25 protesters were shot.
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If veteran reformist Mohammad Reza Aref can oust incumbent Ali Larijani, a conservative with broad appeal, that could herald a more actively pro-Rouhani chamber, with more power to push for his policies.
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They are emboldened by a more open political climate - and a weaker ruling coalition - since reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in April 2018 and eased the iron first of his predecessors.
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Political allies who tarnish his reformist image, like the four tainted cabinet members fired so far, are tossed out "like an old rag," as the National Front leader Marine Le Pen put it.
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In defeating Mr. Raisi, Mr. Rouhani proved once again that Iran's electorate prefers the moderate reformist path over the rigid ideology and harsh social restrictions favored by the conservative clergy and security establishment.
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Mostafa Tajzadeh, a prominent reformist politician, said on Twitter that if elected officials could not listen to the demands of the people, "they should resign and leave the country to its real rulers."
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Italians' rejection of a reformist leader underlined worries about the country's commitment to the euro, as well as its banking system, which holds 423 billion euros, or about $385 billion, in suspect debt.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Gains by reformist candidates in Iranian elections open the way for changes to economic policy that will boost foreign investment and trade with the West, businessmen and analysts said on Sunday.
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In an interview with Time Magazine last month, reformist Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a few areas Saudi laws can be changed to life in prison sentences instead of executions.
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