Pervasive Coalition of Reformists

Pervasive Coalition of Reformists ائتلاف فراگير اصلاح‌طلبان
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Chairman	Ali Soufi
Spokesperson	Mahmoud Mirlohi
Head of Policymaking Council	Mohammad Reza Aref
Fraction	Hope
Ideology	Reformism
National affiliation	Iranian Reformists
Colours	Persian Blue
Slogan	"Hope and Serenity, Economic Bloom"
Politics of Iran Political parties Elections

Pervasive Coalition of Reformists: The Second Step (Persian: ائتلاف فراگير اصلاح‌طلبان: گام دوم), named The List of Hope (Persian: لیست امید) by Mohammad Khatami,^[1] was the sole coalition and electoral list affiliated with the Iranian reform movement for the 2016 legislative election. The group also endorsed candidates for the 2016 Assembly of Experts election. Reformists backed a list of 236 candidates for the Parliament and 77 for the Assembly of Experts, even though many of them are not reformists but moderate-leaning figures.^[2]

The coalition includes Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front member groups, National Trust Party (close to Mehdi Karroubi), newly established Union of Islamic Iran People Party, Moderation and Development Party (close to Hassan Rouhani) and the principlist Followers of Velayat faction led by Ali Larijani.