Though ordinary Ukrainians like his style, there is no strong reformist party to back him.
Indeed, some conservatives hope that the Abdi trial will engulf the main reformist party and lead to its banning.
Among the nearly 100 defendants are several members of the reformist Mosharekat Party and a member of the central committee of the Kargozaran Party, which is close to Rafsanjani, Farsf reported.
He sees little essential difference between those espoused by the ruling Congress party of reformist Prime Minister P.
Even supposedly reformist members of the party are reluctant to call for a purge of their more suspect colleagues.
Another, favoured by some Chinese liberals, is that he heads a reformist strain in the party beaten back at the plenum by conservatives.
Mr Bush comes from the reformist wing of the party and still has the power to remind independent voters of this, though he is not doing so now.
Some see a leftist group girding itself to battle a right-wing reformist People's Party (PP) government, led by Mariano Rajoy, that is likely to win power in the next election.
Younger members of the electorate are associated with the Uri Party, whose reformist credentials play well with voters frustrated with the existing corrupt political establishment.
Mr Kan can play his part, by using this summer's leadership contest to move his party towards the reformist centre, where it has most chance of finding common cause with the opposition (see article).
If such reforms initiate a reformist movement within the communist party (this is not certain at all), parties could become part of a roundtable that might eventually negotiate a transition to democracy in the same way that it happened in countries such as Hungary.
The autopsies have also served to concentrate the minds of a hardline Montenegrin party that shares power with reformist Serbs in Yugoslavia's shaky federal government and feels protective of Mr Milosevic.
At the mid-February 1994 Plenum of the pro-democratic "Russia's Choice" party, a group of activists asked reformist ex-Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar to promote the quickest possible introduction of constitutional monarchy.
In Egypt, for instance, reformist currents have gained prominence within the ruling National Democratic Party, just as they have within ruling families in the Gulf.
And just as the conservative wing of the party rallied round the candidate, so did the reformist part.
The party has all but abandoned plans, favoured by reformist leaders in the 1980s, to introduce greater democracy within its own senior ranks.
So now the party's powerful Propaganda Department is lending its weight to the reformist camp.
While disciplined and transparent approaches to such credit transactions are always in order, never are they more required than at present when so great a danger exists that Western economic, financial and technical assistance is being directed toward sustaining the entrenched forces of the Soviet Communist Party rather than aiding the legitimate, non-communist and reformist opposition in the USSR.
Reportedly, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPCS) has lost a third of its members and reformist elements have split off to found two new communist parties (Democratic Forum, and Independent Left).
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Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi, one of the defeated candidates, plans to form a new political party aimed at reining in the power of the Islamic republic's leadership, a leading reformist newspaper reported Sunday.
And in an unprecedented effort to bridge rifts between reformist and conservative camps, Vietnam's leaders chose a military figure, Le Kha Phieu, to lead the party and maintain political stability.
With 40% of Ukrainians telling pollsters they would like a return to central planning, the mildly reformist Mr Kuchma's only hope of a second term is if Petro Symonyenko, the old-style Communist Party leader, stands.
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