Coalition of Eight Reformist Parties

Coalition of Eight Reformist Parties
PresidentFaraj Komijani[1]
Founded2020
Split fromCouncil for Coordinating the Reforms Front
IdeologyReformism
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The Coalition of Eight Reformist Parties (Persian: ائتلاف هشت حزب اصلاح‌طلب) refers to the political alliance of eight reformist parties that endorsed a joint electoral list for 2020 Iranian legislative election in Tehran electoral district.[2]

The group was formed after the main umbrella group of the camp, the Reformists' Council for Policymaking, declared that it won't compile a list as a result of vast disqualifications by the Guardian Council, while allowing the parties within to form their own coalitions.[2] It was one of the two lists spawned from the camp, the other being Friends of Hashemi.[3]

The coalition was initially supposed to be formed by twelve parties, and its tentative title was 'Reformists in the Capital'.[4] At last, four of those parties were not present in the coalition and the name Etelaf Barayeh Iran (Persian: ائتلاف برای ایران, lit. 'Coalition for Future of Iran') was selected for the list.[5] It was headed by Majid Ansari of Association of Combatant Clerics, and included incumbents such as Mostafa Kavakebian of the Democracy Party and Alireza Mahjoub of the Worker House.[2]

The result of the election was a major blow to the coalition, as all of the candidates were defeated by a wide margin amid the lowest ever turnout recorded in the history of Islamic Republic of Iran.[6]

Parties in coalition

The eight parties were:

References

  1. ^ "Race for Parl. in Tehran enters new stage as main rivals offer candidates' lists", Mehr News Agency, 15 February 2020, retrieved 29 February 2020
  2. ^ a b c Reformists Issue List of Parliamentary Candidates, Financial Tribune, 15 February 2020, retrieved 15 February 2020
  3. ^ "Who will be next speaker?", Tehran Times, 17 February 2020, retrieved 14 February 2020
  4. ^ "With Most Reformists Barred, Iran's Parliamentary Elections Offer Little Choice", RFE/RL, 8 February 2020, retrieved 14 February 2020
  5. ^ Xuequan, Mu, ed. (18 February 2020), "Spotlight: Iranian political parties vying for parliamentary seats ahead of election", Xinhua, archived from the original on February 18, 2020, retrieved 25 February 2020
  6. ^ Eqbali, Aresu; Rasmussen, Sune Engel (23 February 2020), "Iran's Conservatives Win Elections After Record-Low Turnout, Disqualifications", The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 5 March 2020
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Matsunaga, Yasuyuki (17 February 2020), "Iran Majles Election Analytics (February 2020)", Interdisciplinary Research Unit for Global Democratic Change (GDC), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, retrieved 1 March 2020[dead link‍]
Preceded by Parliamentary coalition of Reformists
2020
With: Friends of Hashemi 		Succeeded by
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