The word "reformist" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe someone who advocates for reform or supports a reform movement. For example, you could say, "The mayor is a reformist who has taken a strong stance against corruption in the city."
Jaruzelski preferred to emphasise his reformist credentials, claiming he had been the first Warsaw Pact leader to recognise the significance of Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas.
But for the bomb she should have compounded the offence, dismissing Kinnock, the Labour leader whose reformist courage should have commanded respect, as a puppet of the hard left – the "enemies of freedom" who sought to overthrow democratic institutions.
In parliamentary elections in 2012 his supporters lost their majority to a reformist coalition backed by billionaire entrepreneur Bidzina Ivanishvili.
It was only after the reformist Dr Garret Fitzgerald took control of Fine Gael and tried to make the Republic a more secular place to live in that the nexus between the church and the party finally began to break up.
A media court in Tehran ordered the reformist daily Mardom-e-Emrooz, which was in its first month of publication, to be closed down at the weekend because it had shown solidarity with the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following the deadly shootings at its offices.
A decision in February by president Thein Sein's reformist government to revoke their "temporary" identity cards has disenfranchised the community ahead of parliamentary elections due to be held in November.
According to the reformist Shargh daily, he said after one of those visits in the city of Shiraz: "Iran belongs to all Iranians from any ethnic or religious groups and all of them have a right to live peacefully along other citizens".
A member of Moharekat (Participation Front), the main reformist political party, told Tehran Bureau these fundamentalist attacks were predictable and cautioned against exaggerating their importance.
It's clear she lends a sympathetic ear to many reformist ideas; in London last year she said: "We must constantly renew Europe's political shape so that it keeps up with the times".
The current detente resulted from the election of a reformist leader, Hassan Rouhani, opposing the domestic chaos of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
On Tuesday, a foreign desk correspondent at one of Tehran's reformist dailies said he believed the reports were credible, "Otherwise why would Rouhani lavish his 'first foreign dignitary to visit' honor on Sultan Qaboos?
