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The reformist parliament elected in December 1999 in tandem with President Vladimir Putin's reformist administration lowered tax rates, overhauled the judicial system, legislated private ownership of land, and adopted new banking laws.
Thus, we will be able to advance a reformist agenda only if we have a convincing narrative that explains why we need Europe and why it serves the interests of current and future generations.
But one general strike was enough to kill his reformist zeal.
To protect China’s central bank from local political pressure, reformist Premier Zhu Rongji, on my and others’ advice in the 1990’s, reorganized the People’s Bank of China along regional lines, similar to the Federal Reserve’s district banks.
France’s opposition to Syria’s presence in Lebanon was at least partly a reflection of disenchantment with Assad’s reformist ambitions, and the European Union has expressed similar reservations.
With the disappearance of the communist world and the failure of its collectivist policies, one would think that this debate had been resolved in favor of the reformist vision.
The welfare state, largely associated with the reformist social-democratic movement, is now reaching its limits in the form of uncontrolled public deficits and unsupportable levels of taxation.
The heroes of the second group are reformist finance or economy ministers such as India’s Manmohan Singh or Brazil’s Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
That same month, Hungary reelected Gyurcsany, who had pursued a supposedly reformist program, but also oversaw a massive accumulation of public debt.
Fifty-seven percent of voters chose to elect the reformist President Hassan Rouhani to a second term.
When Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, Israel should have gone out of its way to strengthen him and his reformist team.
The international left has opted for a reformist course, including, where necessary, coalition governments with centrist partners.
The reformist option fully accepts the internationalization of today’s market economy.
For the danger is that the government will not, as its critics fear, destroy South Korea's distinctive economy through reformist zeal.
Under President Kuchma, the economy has recently started to boom - thanks partly to Yushchenko's brief, reformist premiership four years ago - but the oligarchs' grip has grown tighter.
Intolerance and fundamentalism form one choice for Muslims, but Islam has always had to contend with the question of secularism and the need for religious tolerance, as is evident from the ongoing reformist ferment in theocratic Iran.
There is truth in the cliché that middle-class citizens tend to be politically moderate; open societies and reformist politics often go together.
Hardly anyone predicted the reformist Mohammed Khatami’s resounding presidential victory in 1997, and even fewer foresaw hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s victory in 2005.
This year, hundreds of reformist candidates were disqualified.
Ironically, in 2003 the reformist parliament passed legislation aimed at limiting the power of the Guardian Council, which predictably rejected it.
The liberal, democratic reformist movement among Arabs is here to stay.
A few months before the election, neither of the two main political currents, conservative and reformist, has settled on its candidate.
Among the reformists now in the race, Mehdi Karrobi, the former speaker of the Majlis is a declared reformist candidate.
Reformist critics believe that in order to mobilize people it will not be enough just to campaign against Ahmadinejad.
They got their way in the end,” says Major Ahmad Ragab, the spokesperson of the reformist General Coalition of Police Officers (GCPO), which seeks to establish an official police syndicate and reform the security services along apolitical, professional lines.
Unlike Ahmadinejad’s reformist predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, who acted more like the leader of the loyal opposition than head of the executive, Rouhani has worked closely with Khamenei.
But the longer the Party shies away from taking the tougher, reformist road, the greater the risk of an even sharper downturn.
The reformist paradigm, by contrast, advocates a more open society; a government managed by competent technocrats; an end to crony capitalism; a vigorous effort to attract foreign direct investment; less censorship; a more conciliatory relationship with Iran’s vast and powerful diaspora; and greater equality for women and marginalized religious and ethnic minorities.
Twenty-five million of those 40 million (62.5%) voted for the reformist paradigm, delivering a landslide victory to Rouhani.
At the same time, reformist candidates for city councils scored major victories throughout the country.
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