Coalition of Eight Reformist Parties

Coalition of Eight Reformist Parties
President	Faraj Komijani[1]
Founded	2020
Split from	Council for Coordinating the Reforms Front
Ideology	Reformism
Seats won	0 / 30
Politics of Iran Political parties Elections

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:

• Democracy Party[7]
• Worker House[7]
• Islamic Labour Party[7]
• Islamic Iran Solidarity Party[7]
• Islamic Association of Teachers of Iran[7]
• Assembly of Educators of Islamic Iran[7]
• National Unity and Cooperation Party of Islamic Iran[7]
• Freedom Party[7]

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. 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. 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 List of Hope

Parliamentary coalition of Reformists 2020 With: Friends of Hashemi

Succeeded by Most recent