Yuh, I think you need a Speaker who is a reformist to his or her fingertips.
Mr Mousavi, a reformist former PM, says he would seek to disband the force.
The liberal instincts he once betrayed as a reformist prime minister in the mid-1980s have long since evaporated.
Mr Rafsanjani, who was president between 1989 and 1997, entered the election race at the last minute as a reformist candidate.
Crown Prince Salman is seen as a reformist in a court divided on how to respond to opposition demands.
His supporters hail him as a reformist moderate but his critics say he overreached his powers while in office.
Each time he has moved, Mr Odinga has fashioned himself as a reformist.
Some of them, like Hassan Ghaffourifard, have moved over to the middle ground, adopting a reformist agenda and parlance.
One invites me to a campaign speech by Mehdi Karoubi (pictured above), a reformist cleric and former speaker of parliament.
The allegations have done little to help either his presidential ambitions or his efforts to recast himself as a reformist.
Even if a reformist won, he would not necessarily bring harmony to Iran's relations with America and the outside world.
His trip is the latest high-profile diplomatic visit to the once-isolated nation since a reformist government took office a year ago.
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But they are being seriously challenged by a reformist coalition consisting of Islamic leftists and moderates who support President Khatami's reform policies.
He stated that he supports a reformist and not revolutionary policy following the model of Brazilian President, Luis Inazio Lula Da Silva.
Another, favoured by some Chinese liberals, is that he heads a reformist strain in the party beaten back at the plenum by conservatives.
Mr Zhang's skill has been to persuade some of Beijing's newspapers (though scepticism has since crept in) that he is a reformist pioneer.
Reality struck when Mr Walesa was swept from power in late 1995, to be replaced as president by a reformist ex-communist, Aleksander Kwasniewski.
The nation's new top banker, Hayami Masaru, who takes office March 20, is a trading-company executive with a reputation as a reformist and internationalist.
As part of a reformist threesome along with Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, and Mr Chidambaram Mr Ahluwalia now has a chance to test his theory.
Ali Mazrai(ph) is a reformist journalist who writes about economic issues.
In 2005, Mr. Karroubi contested the presidency on a reformist platform.
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The scent of a reformist, conservative revolution was in the air.
Optimistic businessmen (there are not many) argue that once the legislative election is out of the way, the president will appoint a reformist economic team.
Martin is no radical, but a reformist with a compelling thesis.
All three would have faced a strong challenge from Herty Lewites, a popular former mayor of Managua who led a reformist group of former Sandinistas.
Clement Attlee, the prime minister, was a reformist but no leftie.
Meanwhile, a reformist news site reported "unprecedented" levels of security forces at University of Shiraz, one of the first colleges to reopen after the post-election unrest.
The other candidates are a former head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezai, and Mehdi Karroubi who was a speaker of parliament and is considered a reformist.
Mr Nasheed, a reformist who spent years in jail or under house arrest, came to power in 2008 after beating long-time President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in the country's first ever polls.
Before setting up and running the prominent Rooznegar blog, Mr Motallebi was a staff reporter on a reformist newspaper called Hayat-e-No which was shut down by the Iranian authorities in January.
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